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Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Ben Harper

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Ben Harper
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 28
Guitarist
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Pomona
California
Benjamin Chase Harper
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I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
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Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
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The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it's something to be lived.
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The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.
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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
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A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.
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I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.
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They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.
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