Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes is never the same afterwards. Don't see R-rated movies or vulgar videos or participate in any entertainment that is immoral, suggestive, or pornographic. Don't listen to music that is degrading.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
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I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand,And I like to take up space just because I can,And I use my dress to wipe up my drink.I care less and less what people think.
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I love 'House' - I love 'House' so much.
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I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.
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I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
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I spoke to the 'Wine Spectator' because that's PR; that's how you sell wine.
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I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?
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I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.
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I like music, indie stuff, but I don’t like liking music that other people like.
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We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes is never the same afterwards. Don't see R-rated movies or vulgar videos or participate in any entertainment that is immoral, suggestive, or pornographic. Don't listen to music that is degrading.
