Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
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I am a Zionist.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
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I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
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I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
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Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.
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There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.
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I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie.
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We can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.
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I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.
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Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
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There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home.
