Benjamin Smith Quotes
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.
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I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.
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I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.
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You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.
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To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.
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They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
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The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.
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A theory must be tempered with reality.
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When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.
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Losing an election is very difficult. I've lost an election myself, and it was very difficult.
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Oh yeah, I don't eat a lot of candy on tour. When I get home, man, I love candy. Oh, man, and ice cream. I can't eat it on tour because of the sugar and my throat.
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The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.
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The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
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The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.
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When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
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Communal franchise is wrong in principle and harmful in practice; the time has come in Fiji for all races to get out of the thin water-tight compartments and start thinking in terms of residents of Fiji.
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Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.
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Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.
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I don't believe anyone is ugly.
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The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.
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In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and its just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.
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The way you see and know yourself is also referred to as self-perception.
