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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When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
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I was a huge show-choir girl!
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If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.
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The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.
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Here is a spiritual principle: We cannot exercise love unless we are experiencing grace. You cannot truly love others unless you are convinced that God's love for you is unconditional, based solely on the merit of Christ, not on your performance. Our love, either to God or to others, can only be a response to His love for us.
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I love the 'Mildred Pierce' miniseries.
