Ben Harper Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
Taylor Swift -
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant -
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead -
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
Barney Ross -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
Pat Robertson
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
Sally Ride -
I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
Samuel Larsen -
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
Larry Elder -
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
Taylor Dayne -
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
Victor Francis Hess -
I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
Gallagher
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman -
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
Bat for Lashes -
Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
Carlos Ghosn -
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
Edna Ferber -
I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
Wendy O. Williams
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Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
Frances O'Grady -
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
Karel Capek -
Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.
Pete Sessions -
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
Lee Konitz -
Being classically trained gave me the real foundation for music. It's so important in my life. Why was I influenced by all these styles of music? Because it gave me a sense of freedom. It made me feel like I could put my hand in a colored bag and pull out a different colored candy and have fun with it.
Lara Fabian -
As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
Ben Harper