Ben Barnes Quotes
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I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.
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I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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I'm not in search of records like some other players. If I can score between 15 and 20 goals each season, I will be very happy.
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Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.
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I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
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Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
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It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
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People send me fanmail in the post, and I keep every letter, and I always say I will read every single one. It might take me years and years, but I'll do it. Your audience are what makes you, so you have give as much back as you can.
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I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.
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The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
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You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
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Everything changes and nothing remains still.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
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Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
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Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.
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Never agree to say or do anything that isn't you.
