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.
Benjamin E. Sasse
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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
Walker Percy
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It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.
Andrew Breitbart
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I don´t know where I´m going, only God knows where I´ve been.
Jon Bon Jovi
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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."
Curtis Hanson
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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.
Queen Elizabeth II
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As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
William Lewis Safir
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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Mikhail Lermontov
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When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.
Bill Clinton
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There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.
Isaac Stern
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The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
William H. Seward
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The praying stopped, and Alford turned from that far near distance and walked out on to the veranda alone, thinking still of that self beyond his reach in a faraway place, as a loss, as something he had been deprived of. But how do you feel the loss of a self that you did not have to lose? How can you lose an Africa you did not know? But that was what he felt: the loss of not having had that loss to lose.
Earl Lovelace
