Jack Germond Quotes
Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.
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It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
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We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
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I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully illuminate a lot of the important things. It's a challenge, but it's something I kind of believe in.
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Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.
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Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.
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How do you measure your value?
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This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.
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Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.
