Benjamin Walker Quotes
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
Quotes to Explore
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.
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I got told by pretty much everyone I knew that, if I'm going to be out in L.A., working, you need a car. So I was thinking, I'm going to try and not get a car, just because I'm a contrarian that way.
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I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.
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He was a Major now, the ranks long in his past, yet he still carried the rifle. He had always carried a long-arm into battle; a musket when he was a private, a rifle now he was an officer. He saw no reason not to carry a gun. A soldier's job was to kill. A rifle killed.
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My favourite place in South Korea is Jeju Island: it's a tropical paradise with sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and the magnificent Geomunoreum lava tube system of underground caves.
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Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
