Benjamin Watson Quotes
Athletes are in a position where others think they shouldn't weigh in on certain social topics.Benjamin Watson
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I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
Ted Nelson -
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
Rahm Emanuel -
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor -
You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.
Harry Browne -
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
Laura Schlessinger
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I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.
Karin Slaughter -
People love gentle larceny.
Dan Aykroyd -
During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.
Dan Webster -
On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.
Barton Gellman -
If my strength is technology, financial structuring is my son's skill.
Baba Kalyani -
'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'
Karine Vanasse
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The greatest comedies that were made by anybody were made in two reels; I don't care who it was.
Hal Roach -
He who talks much cannot talk well.
Carlo Goldoni -
There's been so many lovely things said about me, and I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to thank everybody. Thank you.
Babe Ruth -
Unreason is now ascendant in the United States-in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.
Sam Harris -
Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.
Alfred North Whitehead -
In a mad world, only the mad are sane!
Akira Kurosawa
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Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.
Eric Alterman -
Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.
Kevin Systrom -
I know I express myself best singing love songs, and Jim Steinman gave me my rock style, which I have always wanted. I can express myself best putting a lot of emotion into singing rock songs.
Bonnie Tyler -
Some people don't have a sense of humor.
Daniel Lyons -
I think Wonder Woman is a very difficult character to crack. More difficult than Superman, who is also more difficult than Batman. Also, a lot of people in Hollywood believe that it's hard to do a big action movie with a female lead. I happen to disagree with that.
David S. Goyer -
Athletes are in a position where others think they shouldn't weigh in on certain social topics.
Benjamin Watson