Ben Harper Quotes
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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I choose to express myself.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
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I like to impress myself when I dress.
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I'm so lucky, I've been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.
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I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.
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A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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Wow. Good heavens. I'm getting drenched just looking at these pictures. The water is whipping my body.
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A canteen I remember vividly, and maybe one other thing, I can't remember. And I knew then that he had bought them in an army surplus store that day and he wanted to maybe enhance himself in my eyes, and say, "Well, yes, I have been in the army." Or [he] simply just didn't want to disappoint me. It could have been one or the other. But I knew that he had lied to me. And this filled me with a tremendous sort of anger towards him. At the same time, knowing he was trying to please me, so feeling good about him.
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In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
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You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.
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It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.
