James D. Watson Quotes
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.
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There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
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My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.
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If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
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I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.
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Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.
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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
