Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes
There is no equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom loving nation in the history of the world, and the murderous thugs that are in Vladimir Putin's defense of his cronyism. There's no moral equivalency there.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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I am married.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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Every casting director I've met is a woman.
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If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
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Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.
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There is no equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom loving nation in the history of the world, and the murderous thugs that are in Vladimir Putin's defense of his cronyism. There's no moral equivalency there.
