J. C. Watts Quotes
We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I never was a very good singer.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Midi is my hobby.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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He exuded confidence without ever looking as is he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was.
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I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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It pays to get drunk with the best people.
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We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
