Jack Nicholson Quotes
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I was not paying attention during physics in high school; I was wondering if I was going to be cast in 'Pippin.'
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It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
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When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
