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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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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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'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
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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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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.
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Be yourself, but always your better self.
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I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
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I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
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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.
