Ben Harper Quotes
People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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Accept loss forever.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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My strokes are safer when I hit full power. They are unsafe when I hold back; it's more that I force myself to go full power all the time.
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I can't say we will invest in any significant way with this first fund. But hopefully, when we move onto the fund number two, India will be a market that we pursue.
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I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES!
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When you compete with good people, it makes everybody better.
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I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.
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People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.
