Benmont Tench Quotes
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
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NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
