Ben Saunders Quotes
Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid; it can't last long.' But though the war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
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The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
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When you sit in meditation, feel the joy in your soul.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.
