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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A problem shared is a problem doubled.
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Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.
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My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.
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Technical understanding should be a core competency of any company.
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There is a kind of adventure- and risk-seeking audience in classical contemporary music that is really empowering and part of what draws me to it. The people that come to these concerts are open-minded and curious.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.