Ben Silbermann Quotes
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I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.
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After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.
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Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.
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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
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I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.
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Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
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The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
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Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
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Good intentions are pointless without the will to implement them.
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Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.
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I liked it so much, I bought the company
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They corrupt the morals of young girls and destroy posters of Che! What do they think? That this is a bourgeois liberal regime? NO! There is nothing liberal in us! We are collectivists! We are communists! There will be no Prague Spring here!
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I have always felt that it is a task that you are given, and that you have it as long as you live. That is my fundamental view. It is an integral part of the job that you have it for life.
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My parents set a fantastic example for me in that their passion came from theater.
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Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.
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But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it.
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I really liked insects - all kinds: flies, grasshoppers, weevils.
