Jack Nicholson Quotes

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
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• It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

  

  Vince Flynn
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• Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

  

  Zainab Salbi
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• I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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• Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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• I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

  

  Carlene Carter
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• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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• I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
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• Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

  

  Zach Braff
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• It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
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• It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.

  

  Georg Brandes
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• There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.

  

  David Jeremiah
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• I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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• I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

  

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