Jack Dee Quotes

I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.

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• Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Money
  • Funny

• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Lost

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Political
  • Involvement
  • Off

• I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Daughter

• I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Action
  • Doing

• I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Technology
  • Process
  • Weapons

• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Thought

• If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nature

• I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Way

• Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • American
  • Hope
  • Give

• In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Fire
  • Yourself

• Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Build
  • Reputation
  • Lawyers

• Polka dots are fabulous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Fabulous
  • Dots

• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • World
  • Ideas

• Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Technology
  • Start

• Before 'Power,' I got down to $86 in my bank account. I don't know if I feel successful as much as I feel relieved because for the first time in my life I'm not scared about how I'm going to pay my rent, and I can start to put money away.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• I know it's odd. But when I was getting scuba certified, it was explained very early on that you never get to just strap on a tank and jump into the ocean. You have to know how deep you're going, and the deeper you go, the less amount of time you stay down there - and it takes longer to get to the surface.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Time
  • Deep
  • Ocean

• We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can't wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • People
  • Women
  • American

• This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.

  

  Jack Dee
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