Ben Jonson Quotes
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I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.
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Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
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The more you live, the better writer you are.
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I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.
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But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.
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I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
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Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
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Those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink.
