Ben Watt Quotes

People think it's a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.

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• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Music
  • Like
  • Passions

• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Man
  • Woman

• My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.

  

  Fat Joe
  • America
  • Parents
  • Education

• I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Pro-life

• Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Successful
  • First

• It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • True
  • You
  • Brand

• Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Gossip
  • Nashville
  • ABC

• My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Acting

• Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Long
  • School
  • Friends

• Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Present
  • Old

• What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Money
  • Education
  • Talent

• In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • War
  • Shadow

• Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Water

• Young Asian males are nine times as likely as white youth to belong to a gang and Hispanic youth are 19 times more likely. A disproportionate share of Hispanic young and poor are thus assimilating into a misogynistic, rebellious, youth sub-culture of drugs, gangs, crime, contempt for formal education, and hostility to police.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Police

• I think that we don't have, here in the Middle East or in Africa, as much threat to our physical and economic livelihood as women in other parts of the world. But the continuum is the same. The pressures on women to fit into a certain image of a good Muslim girl is the same. The controls and rules are the same, but there are different degrees of it. So, in America, a father will threaten a daughter that he will disown her if she marries the American boyfriend and in Pakistan she faces acid thrown on her face. The power dynamic is the same, it just expresses itself differently.

  

  Asra Nomani
  • World
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

  

  Confucius
  • Truth
  • Sincerity
  • Basis

• Every day, I wake up and ask, 'Am I hungry?' If I'm physically hungry, I eat something that's hopefully good for me, and then do it again in a few hours. If I get a phone call I don't like, I'll say to myself, 'Is that the reason I want to eat something?' If it is, I try not to do it. It's literally a lifestyle.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Up
  • Good

• People think it's a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.

  

  Ben Watt
  • Different
  • Authenticity
  • Betrayal