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J. C. Watts Quotes

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

J. C. Watts

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 18, 1957

Topics

Character People Looking Think Doing

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.

Jeff Ament

Song Someone Talking Down Said Room

No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.

Simon Cowell

Myself Job Security Really Including

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Mason Cooley

Succeed Feel Friends Fail Superior

'7 Years' is, you could say, a song that eats its own children. That we need to get past the song and get to the person and get to the record and get to the music so we can keep releasing.

Lukas Forchhammer

Music Children Past Song You Person

Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

Judith Martin

Love Believe Political Strangers Say

My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.

Janine di Giovanni

Family Mother Women Children Sister

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.

Dick Cheney

Good Business Choose Go Places Oil

What is taught in schools generally in the West Indies is that if something is your thing, it's better than anybody else's because it's yours. It's extremely provincial and also damaging. You prevent people from learning things. The biggest absurdity would be, 'Don't read Shakespeare because he was white.'

Derek Walcott

Learning People Better You White

I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character.

Dean Winters

Character Myself Start Thinking You

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.

Asa Hutchinson

Death Think Death Penalty Some

No, I ain't a star - I'm just a kid from Brooklyn, living his dream.

Astro

Brooklyn Dream Living Kid Star Just

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.

William Shatner

Me Someone Read Recognize About