Jack Black Quotes
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
Quotes to Explore
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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I think I believe a little bit in the power of people to really cast a bad energy on you if they want to. If the bad mojo wants to come your way, look out.
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When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.'
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I am not a person of faith. I'm a Catholic. I was brought up Catholic, but I'm not a church-going sort of girl. I'm very spiritual. I pray every night. I believe in Heaven and Hell, but I'm not a person that goes to church, like, every Sunday.
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I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.
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Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
