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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He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called 'It', and cats – as well as women – always knew when he came into the room.
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Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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It would be in pretty poor form for me to not be a big supporter of tech and computers because that is how I do my work and how I got involved. The advancement and the affordability of tech gear has made a level playing field where you can now have access to ideas reasonably and then it just comes down to extracting those ideas, which is great.
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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All this breathing in Never breathing out.
