Ben Foster Quotes

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

Ben Foster

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• General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Military
  • Place
  • Impossible

• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Want

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Want

• I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • School
  • Home
  • Book

• Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Political
  • Lost
  • Party

• I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Myself
  • Always
  • See

• In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

  

  Quintilian
  • Experience
  • More
  • Precept

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Question
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Son
  • Speak
  • Walk

• I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Care
  • Gay

• I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Just

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Happiness
  • Making
  • Taking

• Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Art

• When you live closely with people, you don't see who they really are. In particular, with nannies, they only exist in your home, and when they leave, they don't really exist anymore for you.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Fear
  • Alone
  • Ifs

• I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Live

• We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

  

  Ben Foster
  • Live
  • Art
  • Experience