Ben Silbermann
Related SHEL SILVERSTEIN THOMAS HARRIS JAMES WAN DEYTH BANGER The Olympics was always my be-all and end-all, so when I won, it was the best feeling in the world. ... JADE JONES There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because... BARRY MCGUIRE RYAN GOSLING Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS I've been supporting Planned Parenthood all my life. I've even used it myself, back when I h... MARILYN MINTER KYLIE JENNER LAILA ALI GARRETT HEDLUND ISRAELMORE AYIVOR STOCKARD CHANNING RACHAEL RAY JACK NICKLAUS CARRIE FISHER I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a... SOPHIE MONK STEVEN WRIGHT AKHIL SHARMA I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had ju... LA'PORSHA RENAE DEYTH BANGER It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake u... BECKY LYNCH GLORIA STUART ADAM DRIVER PAUL FLEISCHMAN MICHAEL CAINE It's such a high-pressure form of live entertainment that I found, once I got out there, being o... DEAN AMBROSE JESSE MCCARTNEY I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of t... PATRICK MARBER ALEXANDER MCQUEEN J. K. SIMMONS All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collec... DRIES VAN NOTEN SAFRA A. CATZ Unless you use the vocoder the way Daft Punk use it, it is very limited. When they sing it's alm... GIORGIO MORODER I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so m... HARMONY KORINE DONALD TRUMP, JR. JOHN C. MAXWELL The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken. JOHN LEACH When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V... VESTA WILLIAMS A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it o... DAMIAN LEWIS It was very romantic. Josh had planned it all - he'd even bought the ring, ... I am very excited, bu... EMILIE DE RAVIN PRINCE I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even t... ADAM RICKITT There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did ... ANNABELLE SELLDORF When I sold my first book, 'A Conspiracy of Tall Men,' it was part of a two-book deal. It wa... NOAH HAWLEY JAY-Z STEVE MARTIN EDDIE VAN HALEN I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff. LOUIS PRIMA Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but... DESMOND DEKKER MOTHER TERESA ZENDAYA When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn'... JOHNNY GALECKI When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it ... PETE BEST I make bangers all the time, and I knew it was going to come. My mom probably used to think it wasn&... TY DOLLA SIGN If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automa... TAO LIN RUSSELL PETERS KEVIN MITNICK I had to go for it, but it was a different outcome than I had planned, BUCKY LASEK JACK OSBOURNE All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with fr... HAILEY BALDWIN That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produ... TED DEMME There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for tha... NATHAN LANE BEN SCHNETZER I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it... TED DEUTCH DEYTH BANGER CAMERON RUSSELL STEVE JOBS I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to... WATT KEY JOHN KRASINSKI When I see something, I go for it. JACKEE HARRY DEYTH BANGER EDDIE VEDDER J. COLE I like wearing my wedding ring, it's nice. JERRY O'CONNELL At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't... KERRY STOKES I have really long hair, so I don't cut it all that often. Sometimes, when I'm working, I ju... ZHU ZHU What can I say about 'The Lost Boys'? Oh my God: I love it; I hate it; I'm scared of it.... JAIME WINSTONE TARYN MANNING WILBUR SMITH When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hy... DAN O'BRIEN ELIZABETH WURTZEL I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew.... GRETCHEN WILSON ELLSWORTH KELLY I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that... DANNY DYER SANDRA OH Pump gas and hydraulic cams are for minivans......... WAYNE SMOTHERS KIERA CASS I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e... S. J. ROZAN I love touring. I can't wait. Everything is just normal when you're finally on tour. I think... ALISON MOSSHART BOBBY ORR CHANDA KOCHHAR RICHARD GERE M. WARD I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is toug... ICE CUBE CAITLYN SIEHL ROBERT PATTINSON It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a mela... NORAH JONES
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Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list... 
I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my cre... 
If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. 
When I was a kid, I was kind of obsessed with that movie 'Dick Tracy.' Burger King had all t... 
I'm always down to share my secrets, share my beauty tips. Most of the stuff my fans never knew ... 
I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante... 
I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologicall... 
You cannot do anything unless you allow your passion to motivate you. People may tell you, "you can ... 
Oh, my only - if I had one frustration in being on 'West Wing' is I wasn't on it enough,... 
I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when... 
In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't. 
What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because i... 
When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching... 
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was goin... 
What is worse, I leave it. What can't be understand, I leave it. What is bad, I leave it. What I say... 
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it&... 
My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do. 
I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about i... 
My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda... 
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... 
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to ma... 
I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we ... 
My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn&#... 
I avoided the spotlight when I was a kid. I always knew, 'Hey, it wasn't me. I didn't do... 
The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L... 
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was ... 
I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. ... 
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all... 
When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th... 
When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went... 
I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism bac... 
Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitim... 
Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, ... 
When we were shooting 'The Book Thief,' I was keeping all these journals. And I remember tal... 
My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watc... 
Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life ... 
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn'... 
I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus... 
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Women who have it all should try having nothing: I have no husband, no children, no real estate, no ... 
My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don&... 
I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, ... 
I was so over crying. 
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I think I have it all. But I won't say that the credit for all that goes to me. I think the cred... 
It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, b... 
I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from arti... 
It ends or it doesn't.
I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw... 
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names... 
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You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ... 
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It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. 
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Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare... 
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Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. 
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin... 
Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid... 
Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His... 
I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ... 
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ... 
If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would... 
I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni... 
Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho... 
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. 
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t... 
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor... 
This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha... 
A third Cato has dropped from the skies. 
Frugality is the mother of all virtues. 
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be... 
With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a... 
Happiness is a journey not a destination. 
Success is a journey, not a destination. 
No one will do it for you. 
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. 
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort... 
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... 
We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda... 
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. 
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. 
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. 
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. 
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. 
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. 
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv... 
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,... 
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. 
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. 
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it... 
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news. 