Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
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I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
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What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.
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Everybody wants recognition, but we can't all get it.
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I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.
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Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
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Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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It is very rare in the life of an intellectual to see your support network show up all at once.
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Memory, prophecy and fantasy the past, the future and the dreaming moment between are all one country, living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.
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I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off.
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No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
