Ben Stein Quotes
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
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I think Mr. Trump's people are very, very passionate, and they're angry because of the way that this country has been taken advantage of from so many other countries. That's a frustration level I think a lot of people in this country feel, and people express it in different ways.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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I'd be honored to be in the same sentence as Tom Hardy. I've been a twin since the day I was born - fraternal, but we look a lot alike - so I've already been mixed up with another man my entire life.
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Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
