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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I feel like I am always searching for my purpose. I'm always wondering what that is.
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As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic slave rebellions in the South failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the Rothschilds, were no instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group famed as "the Secret Six".
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And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.
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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.
