Ben Fountain Quotes

The national framework of social insurance - social security, unemployment and disability benefits, work programs, and workers' compensation - protected citizens from the kinds of risks that private markets couldn't or wouldn't insure.

Ben Fountain

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It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

Jerry Greenfield

LifeHighRarePrettyBigLevel

I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.

John Slattery

FunnySimplePeopleThinkWayWho

I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.

Sidney Crosby

BandEverythingLikeFavourite

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

Robert Fortune

NaturePowerGreatArtMeasureShe

There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.

Tom Hanks

WorkLoveGoodPassionGreatJob

Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.

Robin DiAngelo

RacismPeopleForwardWhiteGoOur

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

Michael Johnson

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The older I get, the more I love psychological thrillers.

Lisa Jewell

LoveMoreGetOlderI Love

You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.

Diego Della Valle

LifeYouImportantYoungTryToys

I won in a primary, so I understand primary fights.

Donna Edwards

UnderstandPrimaryWonFights

Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.

Colson Whitehead

HistoryBlackAmericanTeachWell

When you're driving Tom Cruise around, and he's literally a race car driver, and you're supposed to be driving like you really know what you're doing... It's quite intimidating.

Cobie Smulders

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