Dan Jenkins Quotes
My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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Europe can be saved.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
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I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.
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Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.
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I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
