Ben Savage Quotes
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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.
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Everybody wants to be great at something.
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When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
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My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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When you love competition, you don't want the market to consolidate.
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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
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Leave the earth to the strong and athletic,And the sea to adventure upon.But the sun and the sandNo contractor can copy;We lie in the landOf the lotus and poppy;We vegetate, calm and aesthetic,On the beach, on the sand, in the sun.
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I think Prince was heads, hands and feet about all the rest of them, I thought he left (Michael) Jackson in the dust. Prince was way beyond that. But how pathetic that he killed himself. Don't kid yourself, that's what he did. Slowly, I'll grant you … but that's what drugs and alcohol is: a slow death.
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More./What for? was a rhyme that deserved to be made more often.
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When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
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This book has neither the virtue of irony nor deserves the sympathy reserved for the truly mad.
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If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.
