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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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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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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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 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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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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You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.
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Kobe is Kobe. He is one of the best to ever play this game. Given the opportunity, he can embarrass you.
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I'm a pro-growth, small-government conservative with a background in free enterprise.
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I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange.
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I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.
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Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.
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I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.
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It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.
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When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music.
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In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.
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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.
