Ben Klassen Quotes
From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
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We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Divorces are made in Heaven.
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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I am not in Us Weekly. I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.
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Janet Jackson - I enjoy her style and her dancing.
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For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.
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From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.
