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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.

J. C. Watts

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Character I Am Society Color Think

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

John Boorman

Director Used Assistant Japan Crew

It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.

Anita Baker

Parents Impossible Write Dying Just

When I arrived in the summer of 2009 to command the war in Afghanistan, I entered an effort that was failing. Many Afghans, some ISAF coalition members, and much of the American public had lost confidence in both the trajectory of the war and our ability to correct it.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Confidence War Effort American Lost

I do not have a 10-point plan or a formula for reversing our accelerating slide into tyranny. But any fool can see what doesn't work and what has no chance of success.

Tom Tancredo

Work Success Fool Chance Plan See

What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.

Tom Golisano

Father Boss Me Bad Go Run

'Generations,' we slaved over for a year; we worked it over and over and over again, and in the end, it just fell short.

Ronald D. Moore

End Short Year Over In The End Just

What could I have possibly learned except the really most important thing, which is that I did not want to work at the 'New York Times'? Beyond that, I learned how a newspaper works.

Michael Wolf

Work New York New Important Want

My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.

Mona Simpson

Mother Parent Speech Teach Talk Her

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

Michael K. Williams

Mind Problem Being Working Role

All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Funny Down I Can Nose Shoot Keep

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

Chuck Jones

Good Character Start End You Will

To the extent that the Trump administration doesn't like a strong dollar, something has got to give, and just yelling at other countries for devaluing when you're raising rates and they're cutting rates is not going to work.

Austan Goolsbee

Work Strong You Dollar Going Give