Ben Harper Quotes
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
Sadie Frost -
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin -
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
Viggo Mortensen -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
Walter Cronkite -
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
Gabriel Iglesias
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
Bai Ling -
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
Ralph Steadman -
I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
Adam Brody -
I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.
Ira Glass -
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
Mae Jemison -
There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
Zac Goldsmith
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
Natalie Babbitt -
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
Victoria Aveyard -
I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
Mal Peet -
I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
Garth Brooks -
I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
Rachel Platten
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
Larry Brown -
The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.
Taya Kyle -
Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
Ziggy Marley -
God is love, love is blind, Stevie Wonder is blind, therefore Stevie Wonder is God.
Oscar Wilde -
You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.
Deb Caletti -
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.
Ben Harper