James D. Watkins Quotes
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.
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I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
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One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.
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Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.
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We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
