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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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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The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
