Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies – the ecstacies of awe and reverence – in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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I am frequently attacked.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
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When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'
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I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.
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I have never insulted man or woman in my life, but if you knew what a wholesome regard I have for damn liars and rascals, they would be liable to keep out of my way.
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If I can impact people with my music, that's what I want.
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It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.
