Benjamin Wittes Quotes
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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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 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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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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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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I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.
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Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help.
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I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.
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It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
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Being known for musicals is a great thing.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I think the pitching situation is a huge, huge difference. But I also think the youth of that team is an asset. We had a lot of guys with a lot of scars on them.
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The function of religion means that faith is a lamp in our lives which illuminates the path for people.
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The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.
