Ben Schwartz Quotes
I did a lot of short films online, so I come from that background where a lot of people see your stuff.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
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I love Le'Veon Bell.
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When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
Elliott Erwitt -
There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.
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The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.
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My formal speaking career began before a group of 10 third-graders. We drew pictures of my home in Rwanda. I told them about my mother's huge garden and our mango tree. The lessons I taught were simple. Play nicely. Take care of plants. Take care of people.
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I did a lot of short films online, so I come from that background where a lot of people see your stuff.
