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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Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country.
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Eating at home is important for us, because we eat out so much when we're away. When I'm at home I cook a lot and we eat pretty healthily. I'm not a massive vegetable fan - I've got better since I discovered how to undercook them.
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I love the 'Mildred Pierce' miniseries.
