Benjamin Stone Quotes
You can't truly love someone if you also love yourself, just as you can't love someone if you are not honest with them and they with you – otherwise it's just infatuation and desire.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
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I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.
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You can't truly love someone if you also love yourself, just as you can't love someone if you are not honest with them and they with you – otherwise it's just infatuation and desire.
