Benjamin Watson Quotes
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Alaska itself is an unusual state.
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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.
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I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
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The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.
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Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right.
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I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.
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I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.
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Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.
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Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
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Acting is not what I do. It's what I am. It's my permanent, built-in cathedral.
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It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure.
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I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.
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I went to India, lived, and studied.
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Of course, I am the first democratically elected woman president in Africa, and that raises a lot of expectations. Because I represent the aspirations of women all over Africa, I must succeed for them. I must keep the door open for women's participation in politics at the highest level. That is both humbling and exciting.
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Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.
