S. J. Watson Quotes
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Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
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I respect Conor McGregor's style.
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Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.
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You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.
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We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.
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The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world.
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It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new medium like radio or TV. (p. 53)
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Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.
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The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.
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The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
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Part of me is afraid to let go of this other thing, which was so hugely successful. But on the other hand, I have to move ahead, or else my feet are stuck in the cement. I feel like I'm capable of writing other kinds of music, and I'm at a transitional time in my life.
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Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
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The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
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If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None
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Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.
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The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.
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Learning self-control is important, but it’s equally important to grow up in an environment where adults are consistently present and trustworthy.
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I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
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I am an adult, but a damaged one.
