Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes
People think if they voted for somebody, they should reflexively defend everything they do or say. And if you voted against somebody, you should just as reflexively oppose everything they do or say. It's not very helpful. What's more constructive for our kids is to go on a case-by-case basis, evaluating particular policies.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
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The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.
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Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'
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What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
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A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
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People think if they voted for somebody, they should reflexively defend everything they do or say. And if you voted against somebody, you should just as reflexively oppose everything they do or say. It's not very helpful. What's more constructive for our kids is to go on a case-by-case basis, evaluating particular policies.
