A. C. Benson Quotes
What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and life history, such as how long it is going to live, how many offspring it will have, the length of its aorta, how long it will take to mature, what is the pulse rate in the ninth branch of its circuitry.
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I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.
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Music does not have colour or religion. If I listen to a song, I don't care about the colour, religion, or country of the singer. It doesn't matter, even if it is in another language, because I love the music.
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I like the variety of characters that you can play in films, rather than playing the same role for 10 years as you might on a sitcom.
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All seed except Mary was vitiated by original sin.
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What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
