J. J. Watt Quotes
I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.
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I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.
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Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.
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Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.
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This is the great crisis in football now. It's not just Rangers; it's a lot of clubs. Big clubs always create more debt despite the huge income they have. It's almost an achievement, isn't it? They make so much money, and yet, still, their debts rise and rise and rise. How does that happen? It's absurd.
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After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.
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Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.
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Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
