Ben Affleck Quotes
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I'm a character actor.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.
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I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.
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When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.
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My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to use the right knives and forks and behave properly.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.
