Jackie Jackson Quotes
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I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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Presence is more than just being there.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
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North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma.
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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.
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We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.
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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
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In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
