Ben Affleck Quotes
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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The comedy on '2 Broke Girls' always comes from a place of love - it's never mean. We're a comedy, and we often go right to the edge. It doesn't bother me. I've encountered this all my life. I've been made fun of all my life.
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I'm mortified!
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I love collaborating with people, but I also really love working by myself.
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It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.
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You have to pay people real money.
