Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.
Quotes to Explore
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
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After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.
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In my opinion, if you only show quality but no fighting spirit, you are half a player.
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A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.
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The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.
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A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.
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I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
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I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.
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We have a toxic ideology, hopefully very small, within Islam; certainly most people, most Muslims, don't agree with this violent, jihadist approach.
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I had fallen in love with photography and was making a living doing photographic features for publications such as 'Picture Post,' 'Paris Match' and 'Life' magazine. But in 1939, I saw a huge headline, which I think was in the 'Sunday Express.' It said, 'Danzig - Danger Point of Europe.' I packed up my Leica, got on a train, and went.
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There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.
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Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.
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I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I'd arrive at something too soon. Part of the reason I work on stuff for so long is just because I love working on it. It's not that I'm haunted by some ghost sound. I just have nothing else to do with my life. Some people like to obsessively shop online. I like to obsessively rack up studio bills.
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It's pronounced 'Romaine', like the lettuce.
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If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies' security teams' files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It's just more efficient.
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Glamour to the outside world is taking some sense of care in your appearance and should give you inner confidence. You can do a full on look or you can do a 'less is more' look but you want to have those components, those little things that are special to you.
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The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.
