#val

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. ↗

— Alan Watts

#future #living #made #now #plans

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

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 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

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

The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#girl #grow #grow up #i #little

Things I say have value and I would love for you to value them, however you get it. ↗

— Lil Wayne

#however #i #love #say #them

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do. ↗

— Lil Wayne

#done #lose #more #planning #should

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#come #dead #i #i think #same

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know? ↗

— Marc Webb

#i #just #kind #know #like