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J. C. Watts Quotes

You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

J. C. Watts

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Black You White Stereotypes

We didn't invent anything new. Hospitality has been around forever.

Joe Gebbia

Hospitality New Anything Forever

That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.

Jello Biafra

Hope Time Travel Random Road You

If there's a country, and it's dangerous, and we deploy a U.S.military man or woman, if there's only one there, and they never leave the capital, that is 'boots on the ground.'

John F. Kelly

Woman Man Boots Country Dangerous

What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.

Andrew Young

War Slavery Society America Worth

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.

Andrew Haigh

Think Masculinity Traditional I Think

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

Meghan O'Rourke

Mother Time Day Death Thought Look

When we first moved to Scarborough, there was one Sri Lankan grocery store - now there's a take-out on every corner, each with some specialty or another. You can get what you want the way you want it, and that's very different from the way it used to be.

Shyam Selvadurai

You Now Want Way First Corner

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

Simon Cowell

Hate Think Political Judge You

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.

Tom Waits

Building Someone You Place Know

I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'

Mike Birbiglia

Marriage Parents Me Thought Never

It's disheartening to write goals from year to year, looking back only to see you are in the same place. You can make so many promises that you get sick of yourself, but what is it that God can't do?

Monica Johnson

Goals God Yourself Looking Back Sick

I get called 'controversial' all the time.

Michael Moore

Time Controversial Get