Ben Affleck Quotes
My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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There is always pressure in football.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood me. I was the kid who wanted to be abducted by ET. Then all the losers left in Year 10. But I was quite good at school, and very artistic. In Year 11 it turned around. I became one of the coolest kids in school. I was in school musicals- the kid who could sing. It was bizzare. I loved school. It's an amazing little world. The rules inside the school are different from the outside world.
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My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
