Ben Foster Quotes
Once you're in the presence of people who have put their lives actively on the line, repeatedly, you're never allowed to complain again. And I do, and we all do. But now I look at things a little differently.
Quotes to Explore
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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I have learned to be patient.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.'
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Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
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Once you're in the presence of people who have put their lives actively on the line, repeatedly, you're never allowed to complain again. And I do, and we all do. But now I look at things a little differently.
