Ben Jonson Quotes
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
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For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
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Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
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I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.
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I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
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The average person tells a few white lies.
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I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
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And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.
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Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.
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Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender.
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The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.
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A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
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Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.
