Benjamin Smith Quotes
Self-perception is important because it allows you to figure out who you are. It also enables you to determine how to close the gap between your present personality and who you want to be.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.
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Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfing to mountain-biking. Anything that gets me outside.
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My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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The last season of 'Rescue Me' is going to be very sort of half and half: it's how you think 'Rescue Me' would end versus something very outside the box. And, they do it in this sort of perfect way - it's only nine episodes, you know. Very stream-lined.
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Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye.
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I loved: and in the morning sky, A magic castle upward grew!
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Making a great television show is hard enough. To also tackle F. Scott - whoa.
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Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.
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The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
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paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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Self-perception is important because it allows you to figure out who you are. It also enables you to determine how to close the gap between your present personality and who you want to be.
