Dane Cook Quotes
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I know all the critics.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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My record speaks for itself.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I do think America has made it quite clear that it is in the interest both of America and China to avoid situations in which they will be pushed toward a collision.
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I think you have to be in an insane stratosphere in terms of fame in order to get offered really well-written scripts. Amanda Peet is definitely not in that group.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.
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Political elections are not life and death.
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My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
