Benjamin Watson Quotes
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a way to get outs.
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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life... I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't - I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense.
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But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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The need for reflection and restraint of power is what led Louis Freeh to order that all new agent classes visit the Holocaust Museum here in Washington so they could see and feel and hear in a palpable way the consequences of abuse of power on a massive, almost unimaginable scale.
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For young people in the U.K. who find themselves without anywhere to live - perhaps they have left the family home after a relationship breakdown, or to escape abuse, or have left care - it is far too easy to become trapped in a chain of misfortune, with little help from the state.
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The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
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Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.
