Ben Harper Quotes

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

Ben Harper

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• I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Time
  • Shy

• I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.

  

  Eden Sher
  • People
  • Sound
  • Youth

• Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Help
  • Small
  • Change

• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Personally
  • Lean
  • Lyrically

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Education

• I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Together
  • Magic
  • London

• Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Sound
  • Classes
  • Accent

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Mortician

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Women
  • Business
  • Just

• I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Happy
  • Needs

• I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Tears
  • Blood
  • Heal

• My plans never progressed as far as a clear desire for a family.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Family
  • Desire

• Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?'

  

  Ian McShane
  • You
  • Way
  • King

• Issues of energy, climate change, nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are all big deals. These are problems that we have to get right globally, not just nationally, and there are big benefits in cooperating, in terms of sharing costs, in terms of sharing risks, in terms of propagating the best answers.

  

  John Holdren
  • Energy
  • Control

• There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • Time

• My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Family
  • California