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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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
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Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.
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For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
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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.
