Ben Bass Quotes
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.
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I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
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Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.
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People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on that record that I forgot about and it's really nice to have that variety in the set along with tracks from Strap It On, Meantime, Aftertaste, Size Matters, Monochrome, and Seeing Eye Dog.
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The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.
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I love the 'Mildred Pierce' miniseries.
