Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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Music is about the performance.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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Everybody needs somebody.
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The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
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I can't be a role model. I just can't be.
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
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Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
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History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
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You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
