"I was literally just going and applying for……" — Ben Gibbard
"I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want."
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24 Quotes by Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard has 24 quotes on this site.
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For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...Without a lyric that I'm…
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I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be…
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More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you…
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I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get…
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You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy…
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As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
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I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of…
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I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.
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I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70…
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Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.
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And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.
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You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper…
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More Applying Quotes
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
— Henry Adams
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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you…
— Julie Benz
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I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work…
— Russell Brand
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I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them…
— Nicolas Cage
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If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near…
— Harry Vardon
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Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the…
— Gerald May
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You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to…
— Jeffrey Pfeffer
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In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt…
— Unknown Author
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As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto…
— Robert D. Maurer
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