Benjamin Watson Quotes
My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.
Benjamin Watson
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver
I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
Orhan Pamuk
I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
Karin Slaughter
At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
Dana Perino
I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
Malala Yousafzai
Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
Naya Rivera
It was so odd to have young kids singing 'Lovin' Feelin' because they knew it from 'Top Gun.'
Bill Medley
The Righteous Brothers
I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
Maajid Nawaz
In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group.
Barack Obama
We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.
Ami Ayalon
My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.
Benjamin Watson