Ben Whishaw Quotes
I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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I've always wanted to do a video of me following a girl down the street. Michael Jackson's done it. Omarion's done it. All these male pop artists have followed women down streets in videos - it's kind of the classic thing. And I was like, there is no video of a girl following a girl down the street. I need to do this at some point in my life.
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Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.
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The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.
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Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
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I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
