Jack O'Brien Quotes
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.
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Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.
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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours.
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We all fall in love with someone for the person they are - not because of their race, their hair, or any of the frivolous things that go away in time.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
