Ben Jonson Quotes
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And, though the sound were parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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I think celebrities suck.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
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We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.
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We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And, though the sound were parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
