Brook Benton Quotes
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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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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When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.
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I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
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If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
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To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
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Lord, I believe it's raining all over the world.
