William Bennett Quotes
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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I want it to be that transgender is normal. Let us live our lives. Let us be happy. The world will be a better place when we have that freedom. I think I'm going to be alive to see it.
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A lot of fights in my life have been avoided through confidence and demeanor, so that's pretty masculine also.
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I've always emulated her work ethic because she was one of the few skaters that didn't lose her temper, that would have a bad day, but have a great attitude, come back and try again. That was a huge lesson for me to learn.
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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
