Dan Jenkins Quotes
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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In fantasy land, I wish I could be a pro golfer. I love golf - the most frustratingly brilliant game on the planet.
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I'm retired, man. I'm loving it. Just being a bum. I kind of like it.
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right...The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
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On most of the major issues of the last 40 years, what we were told by economists, foreign-policy experts, pundits, and the media has proven wrong - and doubly wrong given the emphases placed on such assertions by the supposedly better-educated professional classes.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
