Jack Dee Quotes
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I loved the world of imagination.
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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It's a pure dream team to work with Hrithik, Sanjay sir and Rakesh sir.
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I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.
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Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.
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There's a lot of pretty funny women out there.
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When we unwrap presents, I tend to sit there with a bin liner trying to collect up the wrapping paper and thinking about which pieces I can reuse and which I will recycle.
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The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
