Ben Vereen Quotes
Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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human being is by nature a philosopher
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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If you're blindly loyal to me, then you're just acting like a crony of mine. If you say you admire me because of the principles for which I stand, I understand that, but then you also have the right to call me to the carpet when you think I'm falling short.
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I don't want to go and play a cliched Indian girl.
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My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
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Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
