Ann Lewin-Benham Quotes
The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually – to look in the mirror and not be ashamed – has been very important in not relapsing.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
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The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
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That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.
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The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.
