Jon Watts Quotes
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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Hemingway always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.
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Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.
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When I write, I like squeezing as many words as possible into each bar - I've listened to the Fugees and Lauryn Hill for as long as I can remember, so probably a big chunk of it subconsciously comes from that.
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I was definitely the kid who was the chicken, who didn't want to say the cuss words.
