#de

I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's really done so that you're supposed to feel, Oh, he's the most wonderful drummer. I think the whole lot is what's more enjoyable. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#drummer #enjoy #enjoyable #feel #get

Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#every #fantastic #good #him #his

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#against #am #certain #comfortable #going

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? ↗

— J. C. Watts

#agree #analyses #believing #cannot #competing

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #awards #choices #compassion

I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#blackness #character #christianity #conservatism #defined

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#because #business #congress #democrat #democratic

In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#cherish #congressman #dad #deal #great

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#discretion #must #schoolmasters #temper

As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#oklahoma #perform #pressure #quarterback #under