Jack Canfield Quotes
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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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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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
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The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
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Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.
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This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
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You learn in life that, you give everything that you possibly can. And when that's not enough, you learn to accept that.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
