Michael Bennet Quotes
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.
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I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
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I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
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I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which in 1996 set out to ban nuclear tests, is an important step, but we need to do more - and we can.
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If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.
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I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.
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I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.
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Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.
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I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.
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By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.
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Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.
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If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
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Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
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I took more swings than usual. I've had this before. This is what you get when you overdo it too early. It's just real tight. It will be fine.
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Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.
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It's nice to have a debate in a swing state.
