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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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.
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At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.
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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.
