Dane Cook Quotes

'You told your mother I was gonna blow you up with a fucking pumpkin bomb? What did she say?' 'She. Was. Terrified. She wants me to move home.'

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• Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Rock
  • Like
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• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Me
  • Liberty
  • Members

• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Together
  • Me
  • Play

• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.

  

  Bassem Youssef
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• You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Time
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• I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Grow

• If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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  • Grow
  • Beard

• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

  Randy Newman
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• Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

  

  Barry White
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• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Dark
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• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
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• As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
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• Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
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  • Dance
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• The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
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• Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.

  

  Olivia Colman
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• Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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• I'm really interested in passivity as a type of action - sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
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• Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act.

  

  Margaret Whiting
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• 'You told your mother I was gonna blow you up with a fucking pumpkin bomb? What did she say?' 'She. Was. Terrified. She wants me to move home.'

  

  Dane Cook
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