#ss

Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#been #classes #drama #going #i

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

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

— J. C. Watts

#oklahoma #perform #pressure #quarterback #under

For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#been #black #black community #claimed #community

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#african-american #african-american community #being #cable #community

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#almost #crime #desire #due #expression