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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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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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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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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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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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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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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And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.
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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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The question of how to structure our nation's financial system arose in the early years of the republic.
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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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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
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The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.
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I do have people looking up to me, which is still kind of weird to me. 'I'm like, 'Why? What have I done?'
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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.
