Benjamin Zander Quotes
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
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Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
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I would rather wait and keep working on myself harder and wait for the right opportunity. It is not quantity but quality I should be remembered for.
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Now obey thy cherished secret wish,Embrace thy friends-leave all in order;To port and hawser's tie no more returning,Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!
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Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, - cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.
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If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.
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Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen.
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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I definitely am more observational of the people around me and how they interact and less introspective about myself.
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My job is to awaken possibility in other people.
