Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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We all have a private world in which we live; that's the place where nobody comes; alone with our secret thoughts. Our own spouses oftentimes don't know what we're thinking. In our private worlds, it's only you and the Lord, who searches our hearts and knows our anxious thoughts.
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The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
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I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.
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The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.
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The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
