J. J. Watt Quotes
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I'm not graceful.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.
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When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that delete button just won't let anything go forward.
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The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance... How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?
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We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job.
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I'm a kid who grew up working hard.
