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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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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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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Everything is being televised so you won't be able to tell where the Revolution is. 'Who's revolting? Well, I don't know, what's on the other channel?'
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Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.
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Plays which are universal tempt me. 'August: Osage County' is a play which is relevant to the urban Indian set up.
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When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they?
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
