Ben Affleck Quotes
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all.
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We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.
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I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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It takes time to develop a sense of humor, shared world views.
