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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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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I've always had an addictive nature.
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Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.
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I don't like candy bars. I eat the big rectangular bars. You know - anything between 85 and 50 percent cocoa.
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What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?
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Why cast yourself over a cliff, deciding in your writings about things of which you are ignorant? Why do you not keep to what you have received from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church? You introduce novelties!
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How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.
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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.
