Eric Benet Quotes
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I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?
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I grew up on films.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
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I like to work.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.
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What's working for me is like when I go into the studio, I'm trying to get goosebumps.
