#ura

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. ↗

— Alan Watts

#completely #different #god #mosque #natural

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#accurate #american #american values #bit #call

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#born #buddy #called #children #community

That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.' ↗

— J. C. Watts

#black #blacks #cut #down #encouraged

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#carpet #come #comfortable #explaining #feel

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. ↗

— Archibald Wavell

#leader #learning #make #man #natural

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen. ↗

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

#character #characters #creating #encourage #first

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ↗

— John Wayne

#anyway #being #being scared #death #scared

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#appropriate #commonwealth #could #export #framework

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#supernatural #understood #yet