Dax Shepard Quotes
I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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One of the things I really like about programming languages is that it's the perfect excuse to stick your nose into any field. So if you're interested in high energy physics and the structure of the universe, being a programmer is one of the best ways to get in there. It's probably easier than becoming a theoretical physicist
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It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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We can't just say the right thing on lowering the cost of prescription drugs: we have to do the right thing, too.
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I'm most drawn to characters who are compelling and repellant at the same time, very often right at the same moment, and who are frightening and funny all at once.
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I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.
