Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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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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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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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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Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest payday - that's what I want.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
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I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
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Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
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I did go to UCLA for art, but the other option was going to Sarah Lawrence and doing creative writing all the way. So that is part of the reason I love to read so much.
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She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.
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I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.
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Someone once said that life is what happens while we are making other plans. I now know what that means.
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When you win, everything is so beautiful, and when you don't, it's not, so everything is darker.
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This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
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Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
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If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
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During the past twenty-three years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I’m proud to say that these goals have been achieved.
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Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
