Ben Eine Quotes
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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Jon Jones, grow up, bud. We're going to fight regardless of how you feel. And when we do, and I'm cutting the line, and you might as well pull the guard because I'm taking you down.
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You never grow out of high school sadly.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
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The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.
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A favorite Palestinian tactic was to set up a couple of cannons or rocket launchers in a Christian village, fire a few rounds into Israel, and then quickly withdraw, knowing that Israel’s return fire would fall on innocent Christian civilians.
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The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
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You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was." I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.
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What is clear to me, always, is that the writing must never lose sight of truth as its ultimate goal. Page after page, the drive to capture what is true, and not what resembles the truth, shapes the work. If, even for a few passages, the tone becomes false—that is, too studied, too limpid, too regimented, too well-phrased—I am obliged to stop and to figure out where I started to go wrong. If I can’t, I throw everything away.
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I'm a luxury brand.
