Ben Whishaw Quotes
I love taking on other people's words. They are much more interesting to me than my own.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?
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Remember the first rule of gunfighting... 'have a gun.'
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You want to talk about the fading of an icon? You never said I was an icon in the first place. But you want to talk about it in a derogatory fashion. You say the superstar has fallen. But you've never called me a superstar ever. It's only that you use these words when you want to say something derogatory.
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I've been out of my comfort zone a lot, and it makes me more vulnerable, but I have to draw the line somewhere, and don't think I would go skydiving!
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We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.
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I love taking on other people's words. They are much more interesting to me than my own.
