Ben Saunders Quotes
I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.
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I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.
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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
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While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
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The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.
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There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.
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For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.
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It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it and I don't think it means too much. I'm going for greatness.
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Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.
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I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.
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I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.
