Ben Simmons Quotes
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
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I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
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Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.
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Working with Lasse Hallstroem was like a rollercoaster, because he doesn't have one specific vision. It changes daily, or it's always evolving.
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Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.
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The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.
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We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
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I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.
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Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
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There is a saying 'justice delayed is justice denied'. Everyone knows of it, you do too. I have done three major things in Gujarat. I have increased court hours by 30 minutes every day; reduced court vacations by seven days; started evening courts with the same infrastructure.
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There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.
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I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
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I like to address all parts of my game, but I'm really concentrating a lot of time with my coach, David Whelan, on my short game and on the greens.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
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I just like hanging out, really. I'm not too hard to please.
