Benjamin Watson Quotes

You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.

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• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Speak
  • Hebrew
  • Persian

• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Character
  • Desire

• Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Story
  • Idea
  • Talent

• You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Money
  • Power
  • Story

• My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • Stay
  • Valleys

• 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Promise
  • Number
  • Transform

• I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Like
  • Learned

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Job
  • Rest
  • Moon

• Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Day

• I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Play
  • Theater
  • University

• Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

• A man should never neglect his family for business.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Family
  • Business
  • Man

• Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

  

  Ovid
  • Night
  • Woman
  • Darkness

• I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Better

• The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Bad
  • Political

• I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Scary

• The Second Amendment is the one that really protects all of our liberties that we are given by our Lord, and our God-given rights, and are protected under the Constitution.

  

  Paul Broun
  • God

• I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Couple
  • First
  • Year

• I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust-a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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  • Value
  • Opinion

• You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.

  

  Benjamin Watson
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