Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Adequate early rest is best...."Early to bed and early to rise" is still good counsel.
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
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I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
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You don't make any money sitting in traffic.
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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
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Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.
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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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If anyone was in my shoes and they were offered what I was offered, they wouldn't turn it down either.
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Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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But there are two kinds of escape. There is the escape from something, motivated by fear; and the escape to something, motivated by longing. To confuse the second with the first is to confuse strength with weakness, courage with cowardice, love with fear. “All life,” said the wise witch of Edmonton, “is a wandering to find home,” and nothing will ever finally extinguish this conviction of the human heart.
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The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
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Adequate early rest is best...."Early to bed and early to rise" is still good counsel.
