Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.
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I regret all of my books.
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All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
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I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
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I have always been a huge fan of reggae music. I remember going to see Bob Marley And The Wailers at the Hammersmith Odeon when I was 13. I went with my big sister, Cordelia, and it remains the most wonderful concert I've ever been to.
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Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.
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On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.
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No one thinks she [Carolyn Maloney] can pass the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act; she passed it through the House. I mean, it's just - she's there. She knows the issues and she makes sure they get done.
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Don't judge a person on winning or losing.
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