Ben Harper Quotes
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
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I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.
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I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
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It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
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Selfishness is blind.
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I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.
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God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.
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I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.
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When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
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We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
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It'd be negligent to say that I don't want to be at the top of the charts. Of course I do, it's proof that your song is being heard. But I think it's more about the work for me and being proud of what I'm doing in music than what people think about my music. I want to like my music before you like it. I don't want to sell anything that I don't really like. I don't want to sell myself short just to get to the top of the charts. It doesn't feel that great. Feeling proud of your work feels greater than being at the top of the charts.
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In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.
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Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.
