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Ben Chandler Quotes

When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.

Ben Chandler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 12, 1959

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Job Think Thought Ready Comfortable

I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to a project is risky. It involves time; it involves gathering of material, and sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it does. As I'm starting out on a project, I can't tell if it will click or not.

Joanna Scott

Work Time Commitment Writing Feel

I can grow as a leader only if I'm willing to accept feedback.

Jennifer Hyman

Leader Grow Feedback I Can Accept

People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.

Matt Lauer

Family Morning Time Job School I Am

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Angelina Jolie

Past You Place Go More Hard

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

Michael Connelly

World Feel Trying Write Fiction Get

I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.

John Waters

Advice Follow Anybody Really

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

John Quincy Adams

Power Heaven Human Fault Own Must

Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.

Steven Shainberg

Work Place Mysterious Contact Her

You have to support the government, not to me personally; I do not want anyone cultivating loyalty to me. I don't like that.

Rodrigo Duterte

Loyalty Government Support Me You

After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that. It wasn't the grey matter, but it was the gooey part dead center that makes key hormones and neurotransmitters.

Mary Lou Jepsen

Brain Key Grey Matter Dead Missing

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

Michael Morpurgo

Peace Fight War People Understand

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

Jonathan Sacks

Good Community Best Religion Self