John S. Watson Quotes
The United States needs an energy policy that ensures America's tax, trade, regulatory and access policies are transparent and predictable.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.
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Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.
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I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.
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I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.
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The United States needs an energy policy that ensures America's tax, trade, regulatory and access policies are transparent and predictable.
