Ben Folds Quotes
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.
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Prince is my favorite ever. I've liked Prince since... It's been a really long time. Even in junior high. I used to only like punk for a while, and I had all these rules for what kinds of groups were cool, and who was not cool, but as soon as I saw this one Prince video... It just broke all those rules. I was like, 'I love this no matter what.'
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Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.
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It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
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The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.
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So much time and so little to say..
