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 don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
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I just umpire. That's what I've done. That's all I can do. I'm one of the fortunate ones on God's earth. I found what God meant for me to do. People ask if I like working home plate best. I just want to be between the white lines. That's where I belong, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good.
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If I had an explanation, I would give it. We just got whipped from beginning to end tonight. During the season, you will have games like this.
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'I’m not insane, sir,' I said. 'I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.'
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I love the 'Mildred Pierce' miniseries.
