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Benjamin E. Mays Quotes

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

Benjamin E. Mays

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: August 1, 1895 - 1984

Topics

Stars Reach Disgrace

The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.

Animation Head Working Surprising

What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully.

News Go Pilot More Next May

I have an awesome team. We all talk about what projects are the best for me to work on for my career and which ones to pass on.

Work Best Me Team Career Talk

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

Time Book Reading You Special Why

I'm an athlete, yes, but I'm also a woman. I'm someone who kind of, in a way, lost touch with that part of myself after I lost my legs, because there are certain feminine traits you lose when you have prosthetic legs.

Myself Woman Someone You Lose Lost

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Good Anger Empathy Others Own Your

You shape your own destiny.

Destiny You Own Shape Your

The people who are in the military work very hard, often for not much money, to make their country better and to protect their country. And I have nothing but respect for that.

Chelsea Manning

Work Respect Money People Better

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Chuck Palahniuk

Live Die You Choice Breath Minute

I had one young man tell me he wished I was his mom. Another young woman told me that every time she watched 'The Office,' I reminded her of her mother, who had just passed away a year ago, and that every time she saw me she felt as if she had a piece of her mom still with her.

Mother Time Woman Man Me Mom

In the playoffs, it's win or go home. You might not have a chance to look back at a game and say, 'Man, we didn't box out here.'

Home Man Win Game Chance Look

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Education Isolation Reality Too Much

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