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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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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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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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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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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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.
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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 was so grateful to win an Emmy, but just being nominated, it's not overrated!
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My soul will find yours.
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When I went in for the Embraced DVD interviews, I thought, "Good lord, it's 17 years later!" I thought that maybe I should do my make-up differently and put extra effort in, or I'd look like a different human being. It's very strange.
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While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.
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Metaphysics—objective reality; Epistemology—reason; Ethics—self-interest; Politics—capitalism.
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We need to get our hearts straight. And after we get the hearts straight, we can treat each other straight.
