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.

Ben Harper

• Wish
• Fall
• Stupid
• Fly
• Mistakes
• Option
• I Wish
• Hiding

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• If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Best
  • Worry

• 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.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Time
  • Home
  • Road

• I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Writing
  • Now
  • Plan

• I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Very

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Mistakes

• 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.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Movies
  • Short
  • Boring

• 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.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Great
  • Never
  • Secrets

• 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.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mind

• Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Lonely

• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Me
  • Poetry
  • Comes

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Unique
  • One Thing

• I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Perfect
  • Accept
  • Strangers

• 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.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • American
  • History
  • Night

• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Beautiful
  • Right
  • Expression

• There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.

  

  Arnaud Desplechin
  • Music
  • Imagination
  • Rap

• What a beautiful world this will be What a glorious time to be free

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan
  • World
  • Free
  • Glorious

• It costs a lot of money to deliver newsprint. It's so much easier to do it through the air, Internet, radio, television. The second easiest thing is to do it through the mail. But when you have to take something heavy and put it on someone's doorstep, that costs a lot of money.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Money
  • Air

• 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.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Wish
  • Fall
  • Stupid