Ben Silbermann Quotes
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
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Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
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G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.
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You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.
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You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
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I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.
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Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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I wouldn't like my fans going through my rubbish.
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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
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You hear a lot of songs that are about people cheating or about infidelity. I haven't really heard one before about connecting with the noble part of yourself. I know it sounds a little bit cheesy, but that's the real deal. There are a lot of people who are making a genuinely good, sweet decision on a daily basis.
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When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.
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When you talk about yourself for 35 years, first of all, it gets repetitious. And then it seems a little bit excessive, at the least.
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No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world. The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals.
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One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
