Dane Cook Quotes
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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I knew I wanted to be a singer from the age of five. I've been lucky to be so single-minded - some of my friends still don't know what they want to do, and they're finding it hard. There are home videos of me singing and taking centre stage at family parties when I'm about three.
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I always say one of the great scenes from 'The Dirty Dozen' is where Jim Brown has to get grenades in the chimney.
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Making a movie to entertain people, that's just as important as telling people about our stories.
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I attended college in Los Angeles and wore black pumps to work every day.
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There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.
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There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.
