George Benson Quotes
I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
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Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
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But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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I think we're taking a snapshot view of climate change and trying to implement policy based on that snapshot.
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Advice to aspiring models: Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.1
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From a climbing standpoint, gravity is the adversary. You and your fellow humans are striving together to get to the same place at the same time. And I think that's a really good way for humans to interact.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.
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I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.
