Benjamin Watson Quotes
There comes a place where you need to respect. When people are speaking, you don't comment.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.
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If you've got people around you that are like, 'Oh, you're so good,' this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, 'You look like a doofus.' I'm like, 'Thank you. Thank you for that.' It keeps me grounded.
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Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.
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To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.
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When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.
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There comes a place where you need to respect. When people are speaking, you don't comment.
