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 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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It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.
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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.
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I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I'd like to put more in that jar. That's where you come in.
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… honoring one’s created nature
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Never, never, never can I say I had a frustrating childhood. It was all joy. Mother used to say she never had seen such a happy child - that I awakened each morning with a smile. I don’t remember that, but I do remember that I never wanted to go to bed, to go to sleep, for fear I’d miss something.
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One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
