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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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 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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Where the bricks are fallen We will build with new stone Where the beams are rotten We will build with new timbers Where the word is unspoken We will build with new speech There is work together A Church for all And a job for each Every man to his work.
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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
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There were times when other people said I was on the short list, but as time passed and nothing happened, I didn’t expect the recognition would come because people who were familiar with my work were slowly dying off.
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Republican politics can sometimes feel like you're walking into, you know, an Elks Club or bachelor party.
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I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything.
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We need to get our hearts straight. And after we get the hearts straight, we can treat each other straight.
