Ben Chandler Quotes
I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.
Quotes to Explore
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
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I've been really lucky that I've kind of gotten to flow from project to project, because I find it's very important that when you're on a project, you are so invested in it.
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It doesn't thrill me to bits that the state has to use the tools of electronic surveillance to keep us safe, but it seems clear to me that it does, and that our right to privacy needs to be qualified, just as our other rights are qualified, in the interest of general security and the common good.
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Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.
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Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
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I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.
