Ben Jonson Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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The revolution starts at the bottom.
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For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.
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The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.
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I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.
