Ben Jonson Quotes
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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed.
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For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.
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When I go back to theater, I feel good about myself. When I do films or TV, it's to make a little bread to pay my mortgage or whatever, and when I've made the money, I do theater again. And when I get a part I like, a part I can work on, that satisfies me. I feed good about myself.
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A good life is a main argument.
