William Rose Benet Quotes
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.
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I will love you truly forever and a day!
