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PAULA GRUBEN Everyone wants to procreate, have a miniature version of themselves running around, to carry on the ...
PAULA GRUBEN My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath t...
AARON RODGERS Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may le...
AARON KOBLIN Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him...
AARON PATZER Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature actio...
AARON BURR Five letters here just for everybody out there in Packer-land: R-E-L-A-X, Relax. We're going to ...
AARON RODGERS I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you...
QUINTON AARON I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and bei...
QUINTON AARON Being a fan of the business for years and wanting to be an actor for years, I knew, if ever the oppo...
QUINTON AARON Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
QUINTON AARON If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get som...
QUINTON AARON I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday ac...
QUINTON AARON I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive me...
QUINTON AARON My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, ther...
AARON LEVIE I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever i...
HANK AARON I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've...
AARON NEVILLE I think I watched a movie about it.
AARON EDWARDS He came prepared to play. He fulfilled the author's intention. It's his movie. He's the man in it.
AARON ECKHART I think people could come out of this movie thinking, although all of these are very serious subject...
AARON ECKHART Audiences like both savory and unsavory characters, and [even] unsavory elements can be attractive. ...
AARON ECKHART All these people are so firm on their positions. That's where the humor in the movie comes from, ......
AARON ECKHART For Nick, the game, basically, is convincing people. It's getting people to look at things your way....
AARON ECKHART Nick is a tobacco lobbyist who loves his job and doesn't apologize for it, which [as a role] is exci...
AARON ECKHART I think Jason's going to have a huge career,
AARON ECKHART Thank You for Smoking.
AARON ECKHART the highest regard you can receive. That photo can describe an entire life, just an honor, as well a...
AARON ECKHART I'm going to have to stick with the 300 hurdles. There's not a lot of people who can do it and do it...
AARON DOBSON The indoor season is definitely going to give me a good jump for outdoor because I'm starting my tra...
AARON DOBSON I thought about how disappointed I was. I would admit that after that race I was broken in half. It ...
AARON DOBSON Medical amnesty is a good thing. They should always be thinking how to make the code better.
AARON DOBSON They (Dublin Scioto) look pretty big. And, it should be a real battle.
AARON DOBSON With this being our first home game of the season, everybody was really pumped and ready to play.
AARON DOBSON I was just feeling it tonight.
AARON DOBSON It is criminal that the Democratic elected officials allowed this country to invade Iraq, and it is ...
AARON DIXON Maria pays such little attention to issues affecting the black community. She's coming in here with ...
AARON DIXON I do not look at myself as a spoiler.
AARON DIXON The people are tired and they want change.
AARON DIXON West Nile Virus is here to stay. It's not something to be afraid of, but something to be concerned w...
AARON DEVENCENZI We're trying to create a behavioral change.
AARON DEVENCENZI One little 5-gallon bucket can create enough mosquitoes for an entire city block.
AARON DEVENCENZI With abundant rain and warmer temperatures, mosquito populations could be large.
AARON DEVENCENZI Pallets are no longer allowed because they have too many chemicals in them.
AARON COSTIC Twenty degrees is perfect for us. When it gets into the high 20s and the sun is out, it starts to af...
AARON COSTIC It's one of the cultural events. They give out Olympic medals. There will be eight blocks of ice and...
AARON COSTIC Most pieces just depict the finished product. This piece shows the beginning stages, too, and the fo...
AARON COSTIC There were 100 ice sculptors there from all over the world. We were given 10,000 pounds of ice and t...
AARON COSTIC We have a tower built of ice, and we fill it with wood and light it on fire.
AARON COSTIC Don't ever let him near a microphone.
AARON COPLAND Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five mi...
AARON COPLAND When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who...
AARON COPLAND There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is ...
AARON COPLAND A melody is not merely something you can hum
AARON COPLAND To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
AARON COPELAND The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer w...
AARON COPELAND I'm able to use this spring training to really prepare for the season, where normally I'd have to co...
AARON COOK I know the situation and would be happy to talk with him, but I'm not going to call him out of the b...
AARON COOK Everybody's finding their roles. It's like the pieces of the puzzle are coming together for us.
AARON COOK That's something people like to talk about a lot, and I know it would be a great honor to get the ba...
AARON COOK I went after them with my sinker and mixed in some sliders and changeups. I kept them off balance.
AARON COOK Once the doctors told me I was healthy, I knew it was just a matter of time before I was able to get...
AARON COOK It's been aggravating for me at times going through struggles and seeing other guys go through strug...
AARON COOK It's not like anyone in this division is overpowering. If teams take us for granted, we're going to ...
AARON COOK It wasn't my best. You take the bad with the good. Sometimes the bad is good enough.
AARON COOK I kinda made it tough on them, pitching only five innings. I tip my hat to them, they had to do a lo...
AARON COOK We talked about getting off to a good start in the second half, and we did. We kept our composure la...
AARON CHRISTIAN We obviously needed this. It woke us up, and now we need to fight 'til the end.
AARON CHRISTIAN We hung in there and stuck to our game plan, but just ran out of steam at the end. I'm really proud ...
AARON CHRISTIAN It was not easy. We had to grind it out, but that's good.
AARON CHRISTIAN I'm taking my time trying to transition because the Aaron Carter you saw back then now [I'm] a comp...
AARON CARTER Aaron's Party (Come and Get It)
AARON CARTER It's a love story, ... I [get this girl to tutor me] and end up falling in love with her.
AARON CARTER I'm taking my time trying to transition because the Aaron Carter you saw back then ââ‚...
AARON CARTER When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called "Dead End." The name kind of d...
AARON CARTER My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Be...
AARON CARTER Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your...
AARON BURR Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best ...
AARON BURR This win shows progress. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves, though. A lot of people picked us ...
AARON BRUCE We haven't really talked about going to the tournament. We just want to keep playing. ... There is a...
AARON BRUCE I wasn't very impressed with myself in the first half. I was fortunate enough (in the second half) m...
AARON BRUCE We did a good job well from 3s. They did a good job of blocking us out and forcing us into plays we ...
AARON BRUCE This win shows progress. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves, though.
AARON BRUCE He's a force inside. You love to play with players who are that dominant.
AARON BRUCE I think we've made a gradual progression. We've had a lot to learn and there's only so long you can ...
AARON BRUCE I credit their defense, but I should make those shots. Good players make those shots. I'm very disap...
AARON BRUCE We've been talking about it for so long, it's great to actually be in that situation. We spent month...
AARON BRUCE But I always knew when I got to the Brussels sprouts, I was on thin ice.
AARON BROWN What planet have these people been living on?
AARON BROWN Jeanne conveyed a human being's view of what she saw. Her reporting was incredibly solid. Her humani...
AARON BROWN He was that guy who lived and breathed it. He should have had another 10 years' worth of stories to ...
AARON BROWN But the story to me today is that the guy I really believe was the best anchorman ever born died muc...
AARON BROWN We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
AARON BROWN Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news.
AARON BROWN People sometimes think we're a bunch of wacky thrill seekers, ... And no one who has listened to the...
AARON BROWN Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand tria...
AARON BROUSSARD You got it back in hugs, you got it back in tears, you got it back in words of thanks that only a pe...
AARON BROUSSARD I'll always remember Maryland for its heart.
AARON BROUSSARD You came there (to help) at a time when we desperately needed it.
AARON BROUSSARD And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night.
AARON BROUSSARD So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of wha...
AARON BROUSSARD Nobody's coming to get us. The secretary has promised. Everybody's promised. They've had press confe...
AARON BROUSSARD We have been knocked down but you can't keep us down.
AARON BROUSSARD We have been abandoned by our own country.
AARON BROUSSARD This is a horror story. I'd rather be reading it somewhere else than living it.
AARON BROUSSARD It has to be Champ Bailey. His ball skills are outstanding. He can break on the ball. He can re-dire...
AARON BROOKS Unfortunately, it's our new home, temporarily, ... We're going to have to accept that and be as comf...
AARON BROOKS I had my house phone always forwarding to my cell phone, anyway, ... I thought: Eliminate the middle...
AARON BROOKS As a football team, we're not looking for any handouts. We'll band together as a team. We want to go...
AARON BROOKS We couldn't believe that this was going on where we live, ... It's weighing heavily on our hearts an...
AARON BROOKS As a football team, we're not looking for any handouts, ... We know it's going to be difficult, we k...
AARON BROOKS We couldn't believe that this was going on where we live. It's weighing heavily on our hearts and mi...
AARON BROOKS The Civil War is a big game. Regardless of the records going into the game, it's definitely going to...
AARON BROOKS Some of the families weren't able to make it out because a lot of airlines cancelled flights. Famili...
AARON BROOKS Ray Lewis, Ed Reed — you look at what they accomplished last year a...
AARON BROOKS I think it's a fight where he knows what he's getting into too, so there's not going to be a big sur...
AARON BRINK