J. C. Watts Quotes
I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
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I believe we all have the right as private citizens to endorse candidates and participate in the political process.
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To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.
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Musically, swing pretty much dominated in the '30s. And into the late '30s, swing is beginning to change over to bebop in the early '40s, which is exactly when this new science of theoretical physics, particularly theoretical atomic physics, was really coming to the fore.
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I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
