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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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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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.
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And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.
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What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
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The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
