Jack O'Brien Quotes

It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Back
  • United States
  • Meet

• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • You
  • Handle

• Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • Create
  • Relationships

• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Education
  • Form
  • Rewards

• Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Reality
  • Professional

• Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nothing
  • Calmness
  • Aggravating

• I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Think
  • Death
  • Day

• There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Training
  • Eating

• My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Wife
  • Weather
  • Cultures

• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Respect
  • Day

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Acting

• Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Conscience

• When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Words
  • Always
  • Talk

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.

  

  Ciara
  • Life
  • Power
  • Education

• I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Fun
  • Designer
  • Costume

• Dance was something I'd just done at my youth club, and I used to teach dance when I was 14 to 19, 20 years old. I had my own dance group, and then I got more into the acting stuff, and I started doing things for TV. And then I put that on pause, because I really wanted to focus on my real passion, which is music.

  

  Little Simz
  • Music
  • Real
  • Done

• Well, in Who-ville they say That the Grinch's small heart Grew 3 sizes that day.

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • Heart
  • Small

• I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Movie
  • Alone

• It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Best