James D. Watson Quotes
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
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The game is meant to be fun.
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So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
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I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it is? You watch these people making total fools of themselves. It's like there's absolutely no privacy.
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
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I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.
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I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!
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The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
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I want to - more than anything - to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That's what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.
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To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
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Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.
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He did not, and could not, understand the meaning of words apart from their context. Every word and action of his was the manifestation of an activity unknown to him, which was his life.
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Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
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One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.
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To see talented people in roles that others might not see them in, to see how they might fit in the puzzle of the cast, has always been something that I've been good at. I think that if you look at the successes of my films and start to peel them back, there's usually a really smart casting decision that has gone into that success.
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I do yoga and weights, mainly. I still box. I box once a week, but I don't get punched in the face anymore. I just hit the bags now. I'm done with that competitive side of it.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
