Alan Jackson Quotes
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.
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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
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My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'
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We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.
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It's a scary word, 'cancer.'
