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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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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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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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
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I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.
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The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.
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I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.
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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.
