Ben Harper Quotes
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.
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And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not.
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If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
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But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.
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If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
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With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
