Ben Simmons Quotes
I loved my Communications class. The toughest one I had was Oceanography only because I didn't have too much interest in the oceans.
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I'm a big fan of Die Antwoord, which is a different style than I normally listen to.
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We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.
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Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
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It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.
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I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.
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Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
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I'm really good at pretending.
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Intuitive seeming is in my view an attraction to assent based on nothing more than understanding of the content that upon consideration attracts one's assent. But such understanding-based attraction can differ dramatically in epistemic quality. Some such attractions represent nothing more than superstition or bias absorbed from the culture, sans ratiocination.
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The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
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Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
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My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.
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I loved my Communications class. The toughest one I had was Oceanography only because I didn't have too much interest in the oceans.
