Ben Harper Quotes
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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Fashion anticipates.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
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How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.
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Life is not perfect.
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After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years.
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You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
