Benjamin Stone Quotes
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.
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Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
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I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.
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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.
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People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.
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Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.
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What are the Chinese doing, what are we doing, what are - so we need, both the developed world and the developing world, really need to be moving, once again, getting all your arrows in the same direction if you want to have any impact.
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People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.
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A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.
