Cedric Benson Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is the process of establishing the character of Christ in the person. That's all it is.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
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The end came off the edge and I missed an assignment there. I didn't get my guy.
