Benson Henderson Quotes
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.
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The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.
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Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
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It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.
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I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.
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In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
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Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.
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I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.
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I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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Its vast distribution channels offer us a leg-up in our strategy to expose our hotel properties to a broad customer base.
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I do my talking inside the Octagon.
