Ben Parr Quotes
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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I'd say, specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League'; when that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that. But as far as the amount of people in a time, nothing touches when those Capital One commercials were playing.
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In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.
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As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.
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They did not talk or want to talk. It was as if they were afraid to talk for fear of spoiling something beautiful. But Anne had never felt so near Katherine Brooke before. By some magic of its own the winter night had brought them together . . . almost together but not quite.
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The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
