Ben Folds Quotes
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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We care about margins.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.
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I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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I get skinnier if I'm very busy.
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You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.
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I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.
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To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope and finishes off his opponent - that's what a comic has.
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My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
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Everything starts from a dot.
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A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
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Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
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Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome.
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I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
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MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.
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All-American' looks very different today than it did twenty years ago, and I felt that that wasn't being reflected. For better or for worse, young girls get their idea of what is beautiful from the pages of magazines. And so when an Indian girl looks in Seventeen and sees a girl from her background smiling back at her, that sends her a message that she is beautiful.
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All this breathing in Never breathing out.
