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.
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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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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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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 love dishes and house things so I kind of lost it a little bit on the house ware. One-thousand thread-count sheets, that's what I indulged in.
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Whatever your business is, we all have a drama going on in our own lives. We're all unhappy about something. You have sickness, marital problems, a myriad of things going wrong in everybody's life. You have to deal with those things right away. You have to get their full concentration on football. I'd like to be able to communicate even more with my players when things aren't going bad, but it's just like everything else in life. The problems take over, and you wind up chasing the problems. I'd say handling people is the most important thing you do as a coach. Dealing with people, really, is all football is.
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I never let on I was a comedian. I never acted out. It was really important to me, like, to not be Patch Adams. I was so super serious as a doctor, I would bark orders to my nurses. I was hard-core. I wanted to make sure I did my job right. I was perfectly trained to be a physician. You know, it wasn't a fluke. I worked hard at it.
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Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
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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.
