Malik Jackson Quotes
I know I'm going to make mistakes, but you try to minimize them. Don't make the same ones twice.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.
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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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I know I'm going to make mistakes, but you try to minimize them. Don't make the same ones twice.
