J. J. Watt Quotes
It may not matter to anybody now, but when you go out there and perform on the field, that's what matters.
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments.
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It may not matter to anybody now, but when you go out there and perform on the field, that's what matters.
