Ben Affleck Quotes
On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'
Quotes to Explore
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.
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I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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I know my own heart to be entirely English.
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Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.
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I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.
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Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.
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On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'
