Dan Jenkins Quotes
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I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I was a tomboy.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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The best thing I can recommend is to listen to your child. I really mean that.
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The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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I think a CEO lives or dies in whether he's been able to hold on to elements of culture that are needed in the company.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
