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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You cannot do only one thing.
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I don't care if I never see Texas again.
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If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have a greater acknowledgment of history in our policy and in our affairs.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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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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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
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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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I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.
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I don't lie very well!
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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.'
