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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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
Caitlin Moran
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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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If you just can't seem to get ahead, you might need to check your priorities. If you've had difficulties setting your priorities, ask God to help you.
Victoria Osteen
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The sky isn't falling. We're not going to have more meteors hit because of sequestration.
Sam Graves
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I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
Ace Frehley
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I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time incorporating themes that speak to my heart.
Gavin O'Connor
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Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.
Mads Mikkelsen
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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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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
Edmund White
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In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.
Rachel Maddow
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We are the voices of the wandering wind,Which moan for rest and rest can never find;Lo! as the wind is, so is mortal life,A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.
Edwin Arnold
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As Donald Trump continues to dominate the 2016 field, the Republican establishment's low-grade anxiety is becoming an all-out panic
Dalia Mogahed
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Every dog has its day, dogAnd today, dog, just ain't yours.
Toby Keith
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Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
Bill Frist
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I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!
Mireille Mathieu
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Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society.
Benjamin E. Sasse
