Jack Nicholson Quotes
I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
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I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do things differently than you do. If you're starting to work in tech, talk to the artists, talk to the lawyers, talk to the people who are interested in other things.
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America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
