Ben Harper Quotes

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Always
  • Dreams
  • Insecurity

• I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Time
  • Live
  • War

• I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Important
  • Power
  • Focus

• If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.

  

  Walter Lang
  • People
  • Money
  • Earth

• Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Chess

• If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Immigration
  • Nation

• I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Work
  • Think
  • Habits

• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Spring
  • Year

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.

  

  Halsey
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • You

• I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Science

• I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Star

• I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Country
  • Experience

• Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Learn
  • Doing

• While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Perfect
  • Winter

• Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Love

• We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • American
  • Future
  • Proud

• I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Feminism

• I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

  

  LeBron James

• When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Good
  • Writing

• The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Good
  • Older
  • Happier