Ben Foster Quotes
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.
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I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I'm not afraid to be confrontational. I don't remember anyone before bringing that to the table.
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Both should share the same concept of what a relationship means and the same energy to believe in a monogamous relationship.
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I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.
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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
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When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.
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Sic volvenda aetas commutat tempora rerum.Quod fuit in pretio, fit nullo denique honore.
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With Marvel, I obviously don't own the characters, so there are levels of approval to go through. But I'm very seldom told no, and never without reason. Maybe I've just been lucky; I don't know, but I don't think it's as frustrating as people generally imagine. I act as though I own it all while I'm writing, I think. I hope, anyway.
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I'm just going to say it: I'm pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it's about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we've done - or failed to do - with our personal values.
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I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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I feel like dreams are always a little tricky, you know? But if you just push through the struggles and the hard times, it'll be so worth it in the end because you will be able to get to your dreams.
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I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.
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I'm not really into style. I'm more into confidence or having something to say.
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I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.
