William Bennett Quotes
America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
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The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
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The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.
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I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
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America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.
