Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

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• Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Simple
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Humility

• When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Lost
  • Moments
  • Risk

• I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • School
  • Family
  • Think

• Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Look
  • Embrace
  • Grease

• Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Kind
  • Happen
  • Lottery

• What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Done
  • Grace

• The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Long
  • Freedom

• I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Like
  • Always
  • Leave

• While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • America
  • Man
  • Gay

• 'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • American
  • Man
  • Me

• My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Fighting

• Love is an interesting thing.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Love Is

• From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Heart

• As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Live
  • Want
  • Kind

• I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.

  

  Maggie Williams
  • People
  • Long
  • Focus

• If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Christian
  • Angry
  • Face

• There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.

  

  Fanny Lewald
  • Good

• From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.

  

  August Wilson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Art

• Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Care
  • Building

• I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies – the ecstacies of awe and reverence – in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Feel
  • Emotions
  • Forced

• The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Work
  • Character
  • Building