Ben Simmons Quotes
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
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If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.
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Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
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I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I'm steel, fiddles, red, white and blue.
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We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.
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Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed with carrying out his mission. He's a guy who, throughout his career, I would say, did not break rules, but he worked around road blocks.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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I think of my customer as a woman who wants to look beautiful and be able to walk.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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And I have known the eyes already, known them all - The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
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They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered.
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I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.
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I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.
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Especially at this time when it's obvious that government has certain expenditure needs in the wake of two hurricanes and we don't know what else.
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It's important to know when to take your time and not overspend and overdo things, of course. That's why you get things that can be dressed in a thousand different ways.
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[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
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I guess, if it wasn't for Jordan, there would be no LeBron or Kobe who plays like that.
