Ben Harper Quotes

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

Ben Harper

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I don't think my wheelhouse is comfortable in Wall Street. My wheelhouse is small-town America.

Jimmy John Liautaud

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Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.

Jennifer Granholm

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I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

John Ridley

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I was influenced very much by St. Francis of Assisi, whose idea was to radically live the gospel. He was not a priest, or even a brother. He was a layperson. His whole concept was to emulate Christ through the gospels, and to live it in a radical way.

Tom Catena

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As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

Rob Zombie

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I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

Roger Andrew Taylor

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In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

Russell Baker

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A lot of theatre people are definitely not conservative, but I don't think liberals get to own the culture.

Mike Gallagher

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I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

Lucy Walker

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

Dorothy Dix

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I'm not suggesting that microbial cellulose is going to be a replacement for cotton, leather or other textile materials. But I do think it could be quite a smart and sustainable addition to our increasingly precious natural resources.

Suzanne Lee

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