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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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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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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I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
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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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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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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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No country is perfect, but we have to be honest, and strive to expand freedoms, to broaden democracy. The bottom line is that when citizens cannot exercise their rights, the world has a responsibility to speak out.
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I went to USC where there's a huge Greek system. The school is in a pretty seedy area, so the only social life is at these fraternities. I never joined one myself, but I had a lot of friends who were in frats and I would go to those parties. I had a healthy dose of being around frat life while I was in school.
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We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.
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I remember my dad supporting everyone on the local and national level. I was pretty much born into it. I saw the importance of politics firsthand. It gave you a chance to be at the table.
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If I don't need to shoot the ball, I won't do it.
