Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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I have always liked a challenge.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'
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I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
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Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
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In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he Pursewarden had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language'. (VIII)
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The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, '6 Miranda Drive' can be that kind of a movie.
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God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.
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I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.
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I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive.
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To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.
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From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.
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We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed
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I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff.
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Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
