Jack Black Quotes
I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Islam means peace.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.
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If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.
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We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.
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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
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If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll do it.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
