Ben Harper Quotes
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Experience by itself is not science.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.
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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.
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Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.
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There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.
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My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
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I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.
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There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
