Jack Scalia Quotes
My great-grandfather was a police captain, and so was my grandfather. And then my dad spent 23 years as a cop in the Housing Authority.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.
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I saw 'The Shining' when I was too young with my dad in San Francisco in the hotel room.
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Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever.
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Jesus believed that God’s will being done on earth as in heaven was God’s chief priority.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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My great-grandfather was a police captain, and so was my grandfather. And then my dad spent 23 years as a cop in the Housing Authority.
