Dan Jenkins Quotes
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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The star of 'Narcos' and the director and creator of 'Narcos' are both Brazilian superstars. So Brazil has received 'Narcos' particularly well as it's been well-received around the world.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
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I'm one of those people who says 'Yes' to everything, and in New York, that's a real liability. In the city, I could be playing seven nights a week and not finding the time to finish my own compositions.
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If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don’t put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years - you’ll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.
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I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.
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It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.
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Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.
