James Watkins Quotes
Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.
Quotes to Explore
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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I think the thing I fear most in life is waking up one day and not feeling challenge - feeling ambivalent or glib about what I have to do that day.
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I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.
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Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.
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Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.
