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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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Europe can be saved.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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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 wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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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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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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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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My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
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You can stand at a bar and scream all you want about who was the greatest athlete and which was the greatest sports dynasty, and you can shout out your precious statistics, and maybe you're right, and maybe the red-faced guy down the bar - the one with the foam on his beer and the fancy computer rankings - is right, but nobody really knows.
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I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports.
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Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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Everybody makes a lot of money when the French come to town.
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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.
