Ben Harper Quotes
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.
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By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of 'The Little Mermaid,' and I loved that movie. I was going around the house singing - I wanted to be on Disney and everything; I wanted to be a princess.
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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
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When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.
