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 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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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.
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I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.
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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.
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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.
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There comes a place where you need to respect. When people are speaking, you don't comment.
