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.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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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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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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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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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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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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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
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Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.
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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.
