Ben Simmons Quotes
Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It's easy for five guys to defend one guy. It's hard to guard five. It's just a natural thing to do.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I fictionship. I love fictional men.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.
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...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It's easy for five guys to defend one guy. It's hard to guard five. It's just a natural thing to do.
