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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The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
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If I were writing an article for the newspaper, it would be thesis statement, information, information, supporting arguments. That would be the setup. When I'm making a documentary, the pacing of the film and the way that you sort of switch from character to character - all of those are more about storytelling than straight journalism.
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When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.
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TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult.
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To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
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There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home.
