Dan Jenkins Quotes
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I'm easily entertained.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
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I usually get home from dance at 10 every night, and I'll watch TV for about 30 minutes, and then I'll go to bed.
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My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'
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Planned Parenthood is being mentioned by the Republican Party more than ISIS. I think Trump is insane. I don't think you could have a normal conversation or even convince him. I think the ego is just about Trump. It's not about the issues at all.
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One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.
