Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes
As The Atlantic’s Julie Beck has written, we’re building “pillow forts” of comfortable information around us and making it more and more difficult for anything we don’t want to hear to penetrate.
Quotes to Explore
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
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When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.
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It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.
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I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.
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When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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I've been waiting to get back in the Miller Lite Ford since Homestead. The team at the shop have put a lot of effort into building me a fast Ford Fusion for Speedweeks. Being in the Unlimited gives us a chance to see what we've got to work with for the Daytona 500. I think both myself and Joey in the No. 22 will be fast down here. I'm ready to go.
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It's my first love what I dreaming of when I go to bed, when I lay my head upon my pillow.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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As The Atlantic’s Julie Beck has written, we’re building “pillow forts” of comfortable information around us and making it more and more difficult for anything we don’t want to hear to penetrate.
