Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes
When one half of the nation demonizes the other half, tendrils of resentment reach out and strangle whatever charitable impulses remain in us.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
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I don´t know where I´m going, only God knows where I´ve been.
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The bigger problem still is that it determines in many ways what movies get made in the first place. Because as sources of finance are considering a project, they ask themselves, "Does this lend itself to a simplistic marketing approach which will guarantee a big opening weekend?" As a movie-goer, I think that's tragic, because when you look back at those movies that made us fall in love with movies in the first place, most of them were not high-concept, and most of them would not have "won their weekend."
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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.
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As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
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Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.
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Some cities are really boring and straight.
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Everything you do with Palestinians in Israel someone will criticize.
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Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.
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I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
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I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.
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When one half of the nation demonizes the other half, tendrils of resentment reach out and strangle whatever charitable impulses remain in us.
