William L. Jenkins Quotes
President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Time was God's first creation.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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So in the act of giving, we distinguish ourselves from ourselves. In giving, we give ourselves and still remain ourselves.
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The first five years that I did Cerebus I could have made more money baby-sitting (that isn't a joke). Five years. Think about it. (p. 20)
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We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.
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President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.
