Benjamin Watson Quotes
White people think one thing and black people think another thing about the same event. And we automatically, before we really know what happened, kind of pick our sides.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I am not honest.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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I would love to go to film school.
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We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.
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The vast majority of Secret Service agents are incredibly competent people.
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I would like people to be more aware of the fact that ultimately we are paying for things, and it's not just as privacy advocates point out that we're paying with our time and our data. We're also paying with money, because the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on advertising is just factored into the cost of the goods that we buy. It's all coming out of our pocket, just in a really roundabout way.
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I'll admit I never wanted to be in a band. Then, in X-Factor, they put me in this group and it's the best thing that ever happened to me.
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White people think one thing and black people think another thing about the same event. And we automatically, before we really know what happened, kind of pick our sides.
