Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
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Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.
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From the male perspective, when commitment is associated with diamonds and mortgages, promises of love can feel like promises of payment.
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I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
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The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.
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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
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I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.
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I think the legacy of the space station will be that we can do something this technically complex in an international way.
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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
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I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.
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No. 1 records are fine, but in 2016, they just don't mean as much any more - the currency has changed.
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I don't really like watching myself - it isn't necessarily one of my favourite things to do.
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The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.
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We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.
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When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.
