Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes
I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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Europe can be saved.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.
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I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
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I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.
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I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.
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Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
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A definition of philosophy and her sense consists in her assignment that it is a science about the being as a being.
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I've been patient with everything - management, coaches, players - but I want to play. I think I took my time eating my soup, the soup is gone. Now it's time for the main course. The appetizers, throw them out the window.
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I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.
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If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.
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I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.
