Dane Cook Quotes
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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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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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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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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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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We want everyone who comes through to feel more entrepreneurial and start companies, even if they fail.
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I literally cannot remember a time when I was not asking myself what events in 'Star Wars' were like for Princess Leia. The good side of all this is that what looked like 'goofing off' or 'daydreaming' these many years has all turned out to be valuable career preparation.
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When real work happens and that's when real art happens.
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Experience is never at bargain price.
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--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.
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There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.
