Jack L. Chalker Quotes
If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
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As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make my manuscript better, people who've made careers out of providing careful, constructive criticism to writers. I'm tremendously grateful to them.
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On Dick Cheney's Halliburton severance package He's a guy who's in charge of determining our energy policy, and he's doing it with $31 million of oil company money in his pocket. Is anybody fucking home?
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My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.
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If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
