Benjamin Walker Quotes
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
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For a long time, I thought of singing as my mom's thing. I loved it, but I thought of dance as my thing.
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Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist - except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.
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How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?
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Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.
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The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.
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Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.
