Benjamin Watson Quotes
I pride myself on leaving no stone unturned as far as being the most prepared that I can be.
Quotes to Explore
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
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I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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A lot of things we're supposed to do are hard to do, but we can do them. They're always beneficial. Really, some things that are hard are beneficial.
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
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There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.
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It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.
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Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
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One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.
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I grew up playing squash. I have all these squash trophies in my room... I was, like, third in the country.
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When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
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I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
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I pride myself on leaving no stone unturned as far as being the most prepared that I can be.
