Ben Marcus Quotes
Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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People take things so seriously.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.
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Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
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A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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I have always worked out, and I've gone through different phases of yoga, but the combination of Pilates three days a week with yoga is incredible.
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I never really wanted Big Air to be in the Olympics.
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Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
