Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

  

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• Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

  

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• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

  

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• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

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• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  

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• Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

  

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• At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

  

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• It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.

  

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• A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

  

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• Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

  

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• As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

  

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• There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

  

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• I have nothing to do with Donald Trump.

  

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• Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.

  

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• It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.

  

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• I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.

  

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• Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.

  

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• Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

  

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• God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

  

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• If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly!

  

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• My family is really supportive. We fight, and we talk, and we lie, and we tell the truth - not usually in that order - and I really enjoy growing with them and fostering that dynamic.

  

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• The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Work
  • God
  • Blessing