Benjamin Watson Quotes
The reason why 'Black Lives Matter' is a chant is because a lot of people feel, myself included, that sometimes they don't matter.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.
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Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
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The reason why 'Black Lives Matter' is a chant is because a lot of people feel, myself included, that sometimes they don't matter.
