J. J. Watt Quotes
My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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I received free health care.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.
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My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
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Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.
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When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I'm just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, 'If I get a chance, I'm going to score' and that's it.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
