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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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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Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.
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Each golden day was cherished to the full, for one had the feeling that each must be the last. Tomorrow it would be winter.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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While imperfect, the electoral college has generally served the republic well. It forces candidates to campaign in a variety of closely contested races, where political debate is typically robust.
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It's nice to have a debate in a swing state.
