Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
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My private life is quiet.
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Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?
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You give me the awful impression, I hate to have say it, of someone who hasn't read any of the arguments against your position ever.
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I was born in Northern California and lived there until I was about eight years old. Then my parents moved me up to Seattle. I lived there from ages eight to 16. When I was a California kid, I remember running around in my bathing suit and barefoot all the time and getting a suntan.
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My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there's no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.
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When films are remade, it often becomes a big deal. In theater, it's called a revival.
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I just gotta keep reminding myself: Every time I do an interview or something, my volition really has to be just to serve, to help people. Not to feel like I'm important.
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I think Nat's an amazing actor... He understands things about acting that most people don't.
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India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.
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I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away.
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I took to the luge when I was very young, but I never imagined that it would become my passion. At 14, I was already competing on artificial tracks.
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It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
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Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.
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They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.
