Ben Vereen Quotes
Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.
Quotes to Explore
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
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As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.
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My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
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Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
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We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
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We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.
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Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.
