Ben Silbermann Quotes
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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It's not just about achieving success; the journey is equally important for me.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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I am not a good cue card reader.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
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The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.
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Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise.
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There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put others' needs before our own, we deplete our energy, which can lead to depression, physical illness, and overwhelm.
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my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
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I don't think I worry too much about whether to include a melody line or not in a song. That will come along in a natural fashion. I have always said that a song and a lyric writes itself. I really don't think too much about the actual writing, the arrangements or even the playing. It's second nature by now.
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What you collect says so much about who you are.
