Ben Folds Quotes

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• We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Today
  • Reality

• No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Hand
  • Goal
  • Friendship

• I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Movies

• When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Wonder
  • Start
  • Breakfast

• Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • May
  • Know
  • Values

• I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • School
  • Friends
  • Happy

• Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Better
  • Down

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Me
  • Always
  • Spirit

• I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Myself
  • Care

• I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Just

• I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Life
  • Real
  • Anger

• When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Father
  • Words
  • Advice

• It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Space
  • Driving
  • Healthy

• All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Long
  • Words

• From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • More
  • Indifference
  • Neglect

• You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Respect
  • Play
  • Talk

• The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.

  

  John Roberts
  • May
  • Health
  • Financial

• Probably, if I created a venture fund, I would create a firm with virtual services not too different from the a16z model, but without employing people. So I would get CPOs, engineering talent, marketing people who wanted to be involved with the venture fund and provide services.

  

  Peter Levine
  • People
  • Different
  • Model

• People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter.

  

  Said Nursi
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• I came to claim my kingdom and you refused me because I was not one of you. Now I am one of you, my subjects, we are bound by blood, and I deserve to be your king. Your sins and your remorse, your mighty anguish, I take all upon myself. Fear your dead no more, they are my dead.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Fear
  • King

• I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.

  

  Ben Folds
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