Jake Tapper Quotes
If the Trump White House and their allies in the media want to have this conversation about decency, I welcome them to the table to talk about it. But there's a bunch of stuff that they need to get caught up on before we get to a comedian at the White House dinner.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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I don't study; I create.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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I was quite a shy person growing up, and drag was very much a shield for me to perform behind.
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Think Tank, noun: The shower.
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
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If the Trump White House and their allies in the media want to have this conversation about decency, I welcome them to the table to talk about it. But there's a bunch of stuff that they need to get caught up on before we get to a comedian at the White House dinner.
