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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For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.
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Things work in cycles.
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I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.
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How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.
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Two weeks together, that’s all it took, two weeks for me to fall in love with you.
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I just like hanging out, really. I'm not too hard to please.
