Ben Harper Quotes
Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. I'm going to look stupid. I'm going to say things I want to retract. I'm going to sing notes I wish I could have back, there's just no getting around the stumble, but if you stumble enough times you're going to fall off the edge and have no choice but to freakin' fly.
Quotes to Explore
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
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I've been in a situation where I was after the money.
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I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough.
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The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.
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My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
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Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. I'm going to look stupid. I'm going to say things I want to retract. I'm going to sing notes I wish I could have back, there's just no getting around the stumble, but if you stumble enough times you're going to fall off the edge and have no choice but to freakin' fly.
