Chris Benz Quotes
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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I know the consequences of my decisions. I've said no to the biggest of brands. So when I say no to something, I know how much business I will lose out on.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
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For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi – finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.
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I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.
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Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.
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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
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Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
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There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.
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N.B. this book and pensées not important and the temptation to mistake them for Creation must be resisted.
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She does not know how little anyone cares to separate wheat from chaff, when all anyone wants to do is burn a field.
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In a job where you're on a computer all day, and we cater lunch and we put snacks in the kitchen, well, we all started gaining weight, even though we try to pick healthy stuff, but inevitably you find the cashews.
Biz Stone -
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
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As a teenager, I was involved in animal rights activism, and followed the tail end of the first wave of AIDS awareness – I was going to protests, and plugged in to all these causes, but I never really made the connection to electoral politics.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
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I have no problem with being underdressed.
