Ben Stein Quotes
Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.
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I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy.
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People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position.
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What I've learned late in my career is, regardless of whether you play well or not, if the team doesn't win, it's all for nothing.
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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.
