Ben Saunders Quotes
I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.
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On Yom Kippur The rabbi intones that today is the day that God will put your name in the Book of Life... or the Book of DEATH. I'm five, and I'm going, 'Uhhh, what the fuck is that? The book of WHAT?!?' Death? Death was not anything that had ever occurred to me. My greatest fear was that my parents were going to leave me in a grocery store.
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One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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Militants have made about five infiltration attempts since the October 8 earthquake, including two on a single day.
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I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.
