Ben Bass Quotes
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.
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I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.
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The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.
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My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.
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It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.
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When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.
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I love the 'Mildred Pierce' miniseries.
