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.

Jack Germond

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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.'

  

  Tara Reid
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• 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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Future
  • Day

• Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Children
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Pressure

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Need

• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Road
  • Matter

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • Money
  • Why

• It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Important
  • You
  • Relationship

• I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • College
  • Arts
  • Golden

• We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Records

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• 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.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Life
  • Live
  • Black

• Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Important
  • Free
  • Fair

• When I was young, for some reason, I thought a postman's job was quite cool, and once, I even contemplated becoming a lawyer. Finally, I decided to dabble in something creative like fashion designing or photography. Till I joined college, I had no clue that one day, I will face the camera.

  

  Pooja Hegde
  • Job
  • College
  • Fashion

• I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Want
  • Deep

• Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • People

• I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Life
  • Song
  • Enjoyable

• I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Kind

• 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.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money