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.
Irv Kupcinet -
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
Samantha Power -
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
Samantha Power -
I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
Taylor Negron -
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.
Karolina Kurkova -
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
Zooey Deschanel
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg -
I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
Tamara Mellon -
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
Dale Evans -
I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
Ian Mckellen -
I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
Patrick Kane -
I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
Candice Bergen
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Malcolm D. Lee -
With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
Cameron Winklevoss -
When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
Dana Torres -
I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
Lars Ulrich Metallica
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I think about my friends all the time when I'm designing. That's always an arbiter. Would Katy wear this? Would Rihanna wear this? Would Sia wear it? Would Miley wear it?
Jeremy Scott -
When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
Mac DeMarco -
When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.
Elizabeth George -
You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, "How would this person see it, or that person see it?" So sometimes it's allowing myself to be in it and not talking myself out of it.
Kalup Linzy -
One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
Felix Frankfurter -
Now that I have found someone I'm feeling more alone Than I ever have before.
Ben Folds