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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When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
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If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.
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I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.
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All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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