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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It's the way to do it. You can't have total transition unless you want to have total failure.
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I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.
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I can't live without a good scrub or concealer. Concealer could give you 8 hours sleep instantly. I also love lipstick, for everyday a berry tone that resembles the natural lip color.
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When most people become president, even if you disagree with their ideology, you can still agree that they would have the competence to run something... With Trump, I do not have the confidence of that at all.
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All this breathing in Never breathing out.
