Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Several southern actors are coming to Mumbai. Likewise, many Bollywood actors are appearing down South or borrowing ideas from southern films.
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It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
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On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.
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Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'
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My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
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Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.
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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.
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No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
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I have a problem with the term social entrepreneurship because people say only business helps to make the world a better place.
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Smell is the sense of memory and desire.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barac k Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.
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Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.
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The high cost of low living.
