Ben Simmons Quotes
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.
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Whoever stands for 'one China' will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything.
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Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.
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I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
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Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
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I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.
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I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.
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For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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I went to the Talladega 500 with a girl I had just met. She was very sweet with childlike qualities. No titties! (p. 113).
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It's easy to play a character, but playing yourself is difficult.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
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Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job; it's different than they expect. They must adapt.
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Many women are discovering that the motherhood instinct implies a responsibility to be certain children have dads - everyday, not far away; and some are aware that economic independence requires not holding on to her child as if it were her job.
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If I don't need to shoot the ball, I won't do it.
