J. J. Watt Quotes
My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
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I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.
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You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.
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My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
