Ben Feldman Quotes
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.
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Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.
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I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.
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Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.
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My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.
