Jason Mantzoukas Quotes

At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

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• I read on the Internet that I was dead.

  

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• I always had confidence in my game.

  

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• Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

  

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• The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

  

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• I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

  

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• I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.

  

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• It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

  

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• Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes.

  

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• Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a conclusion; but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious; we shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance.

  

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• Unlearned men of books assume the care,As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

  

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• If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

  

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• At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

  

  Jason Mantzoukas