Stella Benson Quotes

Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

Stella Benson

• Imagination
• Competition
• Blessed
• Sorrow
• Blessing
• Glory
• Misery

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• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
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• I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• I try to photobomb as much as possible.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

  

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• I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
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• I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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• I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Trying
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• I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
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• Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.

  

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  • Up
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• The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • History
  • First
  • Civilization

• I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Mind
  • Why

• Sometimes the fans want it both ways, of course. They want to feel like they're influencing the show, and at the same time, they want to think that showrunners have the story all mapped out in our brains. But it can't be both. In truth, we were usually far ahead of the fan feedback.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
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• If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

  

  Adam Smith
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• The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • People
  • World
  • Fake

• I am really laid back and kind of go-with-the-flow, but I will never do anything that I don't believe in.

  

  Kris Allen
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• It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.

  

  Dmitri Alperovitch
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• I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing.

  

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  • World
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• In acting, every day is different, and I guess it appeals to my storytelling imagination. But I've been very fortunate to get the chance to do what I want to do and earn a living from it to pay the mortgage.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • Different
  • Imagination

• The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

  

  Socrates
  • Gift
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  • Blessing

• Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Imagination
  • Competition
  • Blessed