Ben Harper Quotes
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.
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In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.
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I'm not going to say I'm cool, because I don't really feel that. I just don't care at all, and I guess that's what people think is cool.
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When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.
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It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
