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You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.
Ben Katchor
You
People
Trouble
Own
Doubt
Doubting
Batteries
Would
Would-Be
Had
Like
Know
Always
Clocks
Just
Dying
Public
Your
Why
Watch
Watches
Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.
Ben Katchor
Art
People
Words
Strong
Sometimes
Those
Responses
Know
Make
Very
Just
Anything
Whether
Mean
Use
Why
Things
This is a shameful thing to say, but I've never really got that 'grown-up' mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?
Ben Miller
Buy
Mind-Set
Say
Shameful
Never
Got
Forks
Really
Why
Grown-Up
Thing
I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.
Ben Schnetzer
Work
You
Together
People
Build
Think
Hey
Say
Someone
Guys
Like
House
Make
Goal
Close
Get
Going
Listen
You Guys
Just
Common
Whenever
Common Goal
Movie
Really
Hard
Why
Bond
Two
Need
Two People
The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for you, which is why I look at around 15- 20 of these sites every day.
Ben Schott
Government
Day
You
Library
Every Day
Giving
Every
Filter
Immediate
Trip
Web
Look
Around
Access
Report
Sites
Which
Media
Why
Fast
Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals?
Ben Shapiro
Technology
Vote
Simple
Made
Country
Thanks
Meetings
Distant
Email
Those
Visit
Possible
Thousands
Had
Over
Deals
Afar
Affected
Decades
Communications
Should
Across
Miles
Who
Skype
Why
I think that a lot of the most talented and driven people, they're not super deterred by failure. So if you put out a really big challenge, I think they get reality excited by that - they say, 'Hey, why not, let's go give it a shot, and if we fall short on that, at least we took a shot at doing something really important and meaningful.'
Ben Silbermann
Failure
You
Reality
People
Challenge
Important
Big
Fall
Think
Took
Hey
Say
Out
Super
Give
Something
Deterred
Driven
Excited
Put
Talented
Most
Big Challenge
Least
Doing
Go
Lot
Get
Short
Meaningful
Shot
Really
They Say
Why
Why Not
The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.
Ben Silbermann
Service
Time
People
Money
Feeling
Understanding
Visceral
Consistent
Ways
Out
Admire
Most
How
Making
Making Money
Doing
Really
Use
Figure
Companies
Deep
Why
If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
Ben Stein
Truth
God
Tell
Steal
Bother
Why
Why Bother
Why Not
I tell you why I don't think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don't think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
Ben Stein
Life
Good
Me
You
Vote
Will
Think
Say
Tell
Democrat
Because
Democrats
Issue
Very
May
Why
Ever
Right
Number
I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
Ben Whishaw
Love
People
Think
About
Talking
Am
Celebrities
Going
Interested
Why
I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
Benazir Bhutto
Me
Scandal
Would
Divert
Never
Had
Attention
Since
Account
Trying
Bank
Bank Account
Maybe
Gold
Holocaust
Swiss
Why
Switzerland
'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Me
Fans
Gone
Back
Worry
Some
Rather
Through
Catalogue
Obsessive
Got
How
Sherlock
Intelligent
Than
Behaviour
Done
Them
Breed
Large
Why
A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'
Benedict Samuel
Beautiful
Teacher
Great
Me
You
People
Simple
Other
Way
Says
Beautiful Way
Understand
Always
How
Been
May
Sentence
Acting
Helpful
Expressing
Why
Thing
Things
When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.
Benicio Del Toro
You
Fool
Superman
Become
Pay
Believe
Easy
Attention
Fame
Movie
Movie Star
Prefer
Much
Much Attention
Star
Why
Start
Honestly, I still don't know a lot of artists, and I want to keep it that way for a while. I think that's why I might be quite original.
Benjamin Clementine
Think
Honestly
Way
Know
Still
Lot
Quite
Artists
Want
While
Might
Original
Keep
Why
Why are there not cabs in Edmonton? Why are there cabs in central London but not here? And if they're going to be here, they should be cheaper. And travelcards, they're expensive.
Benjamin Clementine
London
Cheaper
Edmonton
Going
Expensive
Central
Should
Why
Here
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Ignorance
People
Political
Mind
Action
Society
Destroyed
Must
Totally
Indifference
General
Perfect
Thus
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Causes
Accompanied
Motives
Politically
Human
Cannot
Which
Interests
Act
Ignorant
Human Mind
Many
Why
I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.
Benjamin Wittes
Strong
More
Trump
Authority
Might
Why
The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he'll eventually crack, but maybe not. We're just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, 'Come on, dude!'
Benji Madden
Saying
Day
Big
Other
Late
Out
Runs
Some
About
Guy
He
Day-Out
Knocking
Come
Like
Know
Knows
Dude
His
Festivals
Crack
Going
Maybe
Just
Door
Us
Reason
Who
Even
Keep
Eventually
Why
Night
I grew up in Africa, in Nigeria. I never knew, I never had any reasonable encounter with football. I saw football on Sky News. I thought there were people dressed like extraterrestrials, you know, like they were going to Mars or something, headgears and shoulder pads. And I wondered why, as a child, why did they have to dress that way.
Bennet Omalu
News
You
People
Sky
Thought
Extraterrestrial
Saw
Way
Mars
Dress
Dressed
Something
Never
Had
Football
Knew
Like
Know
Were
Encounter
Up
Wondered
Child
Did
Any
Going
Africa
Grew
Pads
Shoulder
Reasonable
Why
Nigeria
A mockumentary is supposed to be real, and we were frustrated with mockumentaries on TV, which are so rampant because of the success of 'The Office.' It's not real. You watch and ask why is there even a crew there. They never set it up in the narrative. You have a documentary crew following families for reasons we don't understand.
Benny Fine
Success
You
Crew
Rampant
TV
Be Real
Following
Never
Supposed
Documentary
Because
Understand
Narrative
Real
Were
Up
Families
Office
Which
Frustrated
Ask
Reasons
Even
Why
Watch
Set
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
Berkeley Breathed
Simple
Backwards
Picture
Books
Seem
Beat
Emotionally
Picture Books
Built
Exist
Optimistic
Any
Story
Why
I know real people, whose names I could tell you, people I know who have said 'I've stopped buying the New York Times.' Why? Because their editorial position has filtered, has leached into the news pages.
Bernard Goldberg
News
You
People
Filtered
Tell
Could
New
Names
Know
Because
Said
Editorial
Real
Times
Real People
York
Stopped
New York
New York Times
Pages
Who
Whose
Why
Buying
Position
Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport.
Bernard Hinault
Love
Me
Everyday
Something
Reminds
Sport
Why
If I can create an atmosphere to make my job easier and your confidence less, why not?
Bernard Hopkins
Confidence
Job
Easier
Atmosphere
Make
Create
Your
Less
Why
Why Not
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