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'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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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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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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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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What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.
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Ever since I can remember, I've worn big black boots. They are super warm and get me where I need to go.
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While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve. As the Holocene mass extinction rushes on, which species will be left? And what new creatures will evolve that we cannot now imagine - for what creature could ever have imagined us?
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It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.
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It takes time to develop a sense of humor, shared world views.
