Brook Benton Quotes
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
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One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.
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It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.
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Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame,Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.Their level life is but a mouldering fire,Unquenched by want, unfanned by strong desire.
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They were very much the same, each attempting to force his picture of reality upon me and neither giving a hoot in hell for how things looked to me.
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Hard fouls are a part of playoff basketball, and I think that's how basketball should be. I don't take those fouls personally.
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The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
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A few years ago, I fell in love with a man before realising he was married.
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I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.
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Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.
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A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
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I come from Skåne... (points to the gap in her teeth) See, you can tell by my teeth!!
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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.
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Lord, I believe it's raining all over the world.
