Ben Harper Quotes
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
Quotes to Explore
-
Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
-
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
-
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
-
I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
-
I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
-
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
-
I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
-
The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
-
Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
-
I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
-
When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
-
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
-
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
-
People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
-
Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
-
It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
-
To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
-
The intelligence community agrees 30 percent of the terrorists released from Guantanamo are known or suspected to have already re-joined the fight against Americans_- a statistic that translates to a horrific reality.
-
Worst advice? I either don't remember it or I've been very lucky in terms of getting good advice.
-
I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.
-
All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?
-
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
