Benjamin Watson Quotes

We need to get our hearts straight. And after we get the hearts straight, we can treat each other straight.

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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.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • People
  • Nature
  • Technology

• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Universe
  • Painting
  • Patterns

• It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• '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.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Live
  • Kids
  • motivation

• Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women
  • Say
  • Lesbian

• 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.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Done
  • You
  • Muse

• A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • True
  • Dream
  • Me

• I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Always
  • Shoes
  • Walk

• There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Europe
  • Terrorism
  • Link

• 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.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Money
  • Age
  • Society

• It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Money
  • Death

• 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.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Love
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • People
  • Work
  • Worry

• When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Sister
  • Three

• 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.'

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Good
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Time
  • World
  • Team

• I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Home
  • Run
  • Superstition

• There ought to be a law against necessity.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Law
  • Against
  • Necessity

• The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Artillery
  • Generals

• David Bowie had everything. He was intelligent, imaginative, brave, charismatic, cool, sexy and truly inspirational both visually and musically. He created such staggeringly brilliant work, yes, but so much of it and it was so good. There are great people who make great work but who else has left a mark like his? No one like him.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.

  

  Matt Reeves
  • Real

• We need to get our hearts straight. And after we get the hearts straight, we can treat each other straight.

  

  Benjamin Watson