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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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 don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!
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From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.
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Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on objects no matter how far they are separated from each other.
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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.
