Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
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When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
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If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.
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I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
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Often the raw ideas like ‘Relax’ and ‘Rage Hard’ - are the best. ‘Rage Hard’ just happened. There was little conscious effort.
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Here is a list of fearful things:The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's of war,The voice of one who went before.But most of all the mirror's gaze,which counts us out our numbered days.
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There's a beautiful thing about experience. There's a beautiful thing about veteran smarts, but there's also a beautiful thing about youth and the potential that creates down the road.
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If you try to stay young forever, you don't really live.
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Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.
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Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.
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The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.
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It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.
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A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.
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In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not hurt the ones we love the most by selfish criticism!
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If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.
