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.
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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.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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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.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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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.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
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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.
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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My parents came over from Barbados in the late 1950s and early '60s.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation.
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On the advertising side, view count is not the most important thing. It's engagement.
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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.
