Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
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Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.
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There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson.
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If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.
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'A Walk to Remember' was a huge movie for me. I thought Mandy Moore was the coolest thing that ever happened. And Shane West - man, did I have a crush on him.
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I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.
