Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes
It is not only the content of a book that changes you but the shared community with those who have read it, discussed it, argued about it.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.
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There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
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Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
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It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part of the Indian Air Force. The talented few amongst the Air Force pilots are made test pilots. Test pilots are best suited to look at the space programme as they are trained to expect the unexpected.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.
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To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
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I think the really significant part of it for us, for the western world, is we have a lot to gain from the Tibetans - there are certain lessons that are within Tibetan culture. I mean understandings of compassion and of nonviolence that are things that we really lack in our society.
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It is not only the content of a book that changes you but the shared community with those who have read it, discussed it, argued about it.
