Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes
Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society.
Benjamin E. Sasse
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
Paddy Considine
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
Ira Glass
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
Ed Sheeran
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
Caitlin Moran
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
Laura Vandervoort
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
Samuel Butler
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Eddie Trunk
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
Edmund White
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
J. D. Souther
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Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
Maajid Nawaz
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
Kapil Dev
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In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
Malala Yousafzai
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Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
Bill Walsh
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The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.
Daniel Bell
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If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.
Catharine Beecher
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I like technology, but the blockbuster games use it for the same thing over and over again.
Jenova Chen
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Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society.
Benjamin E. Sasse
