Brook Benton Quotes
One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to push myself.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
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We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.
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When I decided to be an actor, years ago, I just said, 'Look, I'm not going to do this unless I can be the best,' but I don't know what 'the best' is.
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I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.
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The work of creation is never without travail
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Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.
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Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.
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The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (16 October 1939)
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One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.
