Dane Cook Quotes

I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.

Dane Cook

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• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Peace

• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Writing
  • Deep
  • Story

• I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Technology
  • Crime

• Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

  

  Imelda May
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Age

• I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Anything
  • Would
  • Watch

• I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Powerful

• It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Guy

• I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • History
  • Know

• I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Girl
  • Weird
  • Beach

• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • World
  • Alone
  • Rest

• Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Law

• The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Thought
  • Skepticism

• I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Politics

• I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • People
  • Strong
  • Funny

• A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory. You don't remember everything in life; you just remember certain things - so, why this one?

  

  Matt Besser
  • Life
  • Important
  • Why

• I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something you're really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesn't go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.

  

  Jonah Peretti
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Why
  • Comedy
  • Loved

• When Jagged Little Pill came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Honor

• I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

  

  Chuck D
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Morning

• I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Why
  • Comedy
  • Loved