Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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387. I believe it might interest a philosopher, one who can think himself, to read my notes. For even if I have hit the mark only rarely, he would recognize what targets I had been ceaselessly aiming at.
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Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.
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You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lift miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day untouched, some old, lost sweet-tasting time.But there it was again, the girl's spreading bloodstain.
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I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.
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Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the Middle East.
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The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
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The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land.
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Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.
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Labor is the law of happiness.
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To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.
