Benjamin Wittes Quotes
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.
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Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
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Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
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This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels. Let them have their angles, it's what they live for. You've got better things to worry about, like making sure the people that actually matter don't try any funny stuff.
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People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
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The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.
