A. J. Jacobs Quotes
I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.
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I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.
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Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
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I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
