Mike Jackson Quotes
It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
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Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.
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I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
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I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.
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Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
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I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.
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Allen was like a prophet of the 1960s.
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There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.
