Ben Folds Quotes
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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I have always been interested in exploring how we can leverage our knowledge about everyday objects, and how we use them, in order to interact with our digital world.
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You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.
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When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?
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Now that I have found someone I'm feeling more alone Than I ever have before.
