Benjamin Watson Quotes
We need to get our hearts straight. And after we get the hearts straight, we can treat each other straight.
Quotes to Explore
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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I love doing improv, and I swear by it, and I encourage people to take classes, and blah blah blah. But it's always been interesting how it doesn't necessarily translate to television.
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If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'
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I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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There ought to be a law against necessity.
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I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.
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I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.
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Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, what matters is if the celebrity truly backs the brand.
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Having a consumer brand helps us a lot. We will see more ambulatory care, and there will be a lot of new ways to deliver healthcare... and that means consumerism is going to play a bigger role.
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As long as it's a level playing field, we're open to compete with them any time and anywhere.
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China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.
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We need to get our hearts straight. And after we get the hearts straight, we can treat each other straight.
