Dan Jenkins Quotes
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.
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A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
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I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.
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In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
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There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
