Ben Folds Quotes
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
Cameron Crowe -
Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
Viggo Mortensen -
The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
Frances Beinecke -
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.
Talia Shire -
I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
Nate Parker
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I get skinnier if I'm very busy.
Candice Swanepoel -
You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.
Salli Richardson -
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.
Natasha Little -
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.
J. B. Smoove -
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.
J. K. Simmons
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Everything starts from a dot.
Wassily Kandinsky -
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.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.
Gary Locke -
There is no such things as 'Islamic terrorism,' because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term 'Islamic terrorism' has become widespread.
Bashar al-Assad -
In a society where commonweal does not exist, there are no duties, only exactations to be avoided, and no freedoms, only privileges to be grabbed. There can be no such thing as 'public services' because nothing in the country is truly public. Everything is somebody's fief. And every fief must be exploited if the exploiter cares to survive.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Food simply isn't important to me.
Alice Paul
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Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself.
Hakuun Yasutani -
If someone wants to be a part of your life, They'll make an effort to be in it. So don't bother reserving a space in your heart for someone Who doesn't make an effort to stay. ERASING someone from your mind is so easy... But REMOVING the same person from your heart is ANOTHER STORY. Pin It Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
Javan -
Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Thomas A. Edison -
All this breathing in Never breathing out.
Ben Folds