Ben Barnes Quotes

When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

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• The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

  

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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

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• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

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• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

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• School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.

  

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• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

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• I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

  

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• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  

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• I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

  

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• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

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• In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

  

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• The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.

  

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• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

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• I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.

  

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• In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

  

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• Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

  

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• It’s not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There are no such documents. Spin Magazine, Vol. 10 No.4, 1994.

  

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• A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

  

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• I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

  

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• When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

  

  Ben Barnes
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  • Age