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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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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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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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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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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'Be nice' is my family's basic rule but one that often goes unfollowed in Hollywood. There's always a moment when you can choose between being snarky and being kind. I opt for the latter - it's much less exhausting!
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Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.
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You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.
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I'm very selfish in that I make music for myself, not for other people; I kind of only think about other people afterwards when it's out.
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Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.
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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.
