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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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
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Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.
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Now that I have found someone I'm feeling more alone Than I ever have before.
