Ben Folds Quotes
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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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.
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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.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'
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As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades later and are found at the edge of the moraine, a few polished bones and a pair of hobnailed boots.
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I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor.
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Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.
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I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
