Ben Affleck Quotes
I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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Die Antwoord will be presented to the world as a wild and savage rap crew from the deep, dark depths of Africa.
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In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It's literature for me; it's art.
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When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.
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A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.
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And I've also written a play called Miranda, about what happens afterwards on the ship on the way home. It's about what happens to innocence and how it has to be destroyed.
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I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
