Ben Gibbard Quotes
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Mutual investments of Israeli and American companies strengthen economic ties between the two countries and contribute to Israel and to the U.S. alike.
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In Western Samoa native theory and vocabulary recognized the real pervert who was incapable of normal heterosexual response.
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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
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Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.
