Ben Folds Quotes
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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The world is too violent right now.
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.
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I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
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I'm fascinated by film scores, especially film scores for children's movies because they have to be able to entertain an audience that isn't interested in music yet.
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I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.
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'Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.'
