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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.


Jack L. Chalker

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I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.
CAMPBELL BROWN because we're working here, but still having our ties to Louisiana, you'd like to probably go to Bat...
JIM HASLETT I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth lik...
DON LEMON They're talking about changing the (Louisiana) state song to helicopter blades flapping and a siren ...
LARRY HILL Michael, this doesn't look a bit like Baton Rouge,
SEAN O'KEEFE I knew this was possible. Louisiana has been a hot spot for high school basketball, and Baton Rouge ...
DARNELL LAZARE I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.
TOM DOUGLAS Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
KAREL CAPEK Baton Rouge had a population of 400,000; now it has a population of 800,000, with one-half needing t...
RON KRAL We have had praise from one end of Louisiana to the other about Amateur Radio operators, ... There w...
GARY STRATTON The weather in Baton Rouge hasn't been an issue, ... It's just been the amount of evacuees we've had...
LARRY HILL [That, she said, was because, while Baton Rouge escaped most of the damage suffered by the Big Easy,...
JOHN ATKINSON We have a hundred response vehicles either in the Baton Rouge area or en route.
KAY WILKINS This game is really about our players and not about me going back to Baton Rouge,
NICK SABAN We were going to be nomads for the most part. There's no place to room in Baton Rouge.
CHRIS BAILEY Among other things, Marching Band forms state that if my kid starts acting like a li'l jerkface ...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON After the thing with the president fell through in Baton Rouge, we were basically in limbo,
JAMES BRUNNER Kira is childish and hates to lose. I am also childish and hate to lose. - L
TSUGUMI OHBA They are staying at teacher's houses, they are staying with friends. Some are commuting from Baton R...
ANN LABORDE It's like a black cloud. We may not be able to play in Baton Rouge if it hits like that.
AARON BROOKS Since the hurricane, there is a new 'normal' in Baton Rouge. We have become Louisiana's largest city...
DAVID MARSCHALL It would be different in Baton Rouge. This has place has two, three streets. I hope it doesn't start...
JACKIE WILSON I grew up in Baton Rouge and learned to be a musician down there [in New Orleans]. I call it the onl...
RANDY JACKSON I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educate...
MARION BERRY There was a perception in New Orleans that in Louisiana, there was New Orleans and then there was th...
CHARLES LANDRY Initially, we wanted to make sure that, if the storm continued on a path toward New Orleans and the ...
DAVID MARSCHALL I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.
JESSYE NORMAN Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing fo...
RONNIE HAWKINS Among other things, Spanish language, culture and history are, whether some people like it or not in...
MABEL ILLIDGE Our office is in pretty good shape, but the building itself had some damage. We're setting up a temp...
HOWARD THOMPSON That had a special meaning to me, ... I grew up in Baton Rouge and had attended LSU. Going back ther...
LARRY ZIMMER The uncle, the one that nobody one knew where he was at, is in Baton Rouge, ... We're still looking ...
WARRICK DUNN We don't want to interfere with the recovery in any way. And there are no hotel rooms in Baton Rouge...
SKIP BERTMAN The current real estate market in Baton Rouge provided this opportunity, which is representative of ...
ANTHONY MOORE Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.
DEAN KOONTZ It feels wonderful to be here. We had to drive in from Baton Rouge for it, but it's still our hometo...
BETTY PARKER When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I co...
NINA EASTON It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, ...
ELAYNE BOOSLER If you go down to New Orleans in the poorer places, you still see things that are unimaginable. We w...
GARRETT TEMPLE If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.
BILL SHOEMAKER If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.
WILLIE SHOEMAKER I would like to thank Nasal Beard for that warm welcome. [Thanking Hazel Beard, mayor of Shreveport,...
GEORGE W. BUSH I think the games in Baton Rouge will start in mid-December based on the parameters we got from the ...
PAUL MOTT Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and n...
BEN MARCUS We certainly appreciate everyone's right to an opinion. Colonel Sanders was one of Kentucky's most d...
JODI WHITAKER I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Here in Baton Rouge, I think a lot of rumors got started. (People) were just taking precaution. Any ...
LAURIE ARONSON To be quite honest, there is never a good time to play LSU. Our challenge is humongous. Baton Rouge ...
DARRELL DICKEY and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I'm sure if it was Kentucky, the Louisiana officers would be here helping us. I feel like we owe the...
FRANK FLOYD Colonel Sanders was one of Kentucky's most distinguished citizens, a great entrepreneur and a fine c...
JODI WHITAKER I am to snakes what Colonel Sanders is to chickens.
VERNON KELLY Edwin was a tough, tough old guy. He played as recently as November in Baton Rouge, even though he w...
BEN SANDMEL Life is a paradiddle...

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ROSS R. MASON I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some ...
ORNETTE COLEMAN My mother is with her sister in Arkansas, my brother is in Baton Rouge with his wife's family and my...
BOB BALLARD When I asked them why, they said because this is Louisiana, meaning that we're corrupt, incompetent ...
LORI BENNETT Are you really a doctor?” I asked.
“Some people say that.”
“Why?”
“Becaus...
MICHAEL BRENT JONES I've also been mayor in a city that's five to one Democrats over Republicans. And I think I've been ...
RUDY GIULIANI I'm an honorary old Jewish lady of the West Village.
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Chanel makes an incredible red lip, and Tarte makes the best nude colors! I also love Giorgio Armani...
BEHATI PRINSLOO I write novels and other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
JACK L. CHALKER If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
JACK L. CHALKER I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
JACK L. CHALKER I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the S...
JACK L. CHALKER Decadence is wonderful.
JACK L. CHALKER I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
JACK L. CHALKER No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in the...
JACK L. CHALKER First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out rea...
JACK L. CHALKER Curse him to eternal damnation! Yes! Of course!" came the emotional reply.

"Don't curse h...
JACK L. CHALKER ...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationali...
JACK L. CHALKER Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.
JACK L. CHALKER I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snog...
KATE WINSLET We've had some tough losses. We had three straight going into the Georgia game. This was huge. It's ...
BOBBY PERRY Nobody knows who they are or where they are or if they're going to vote. Ideally, you'd have to run ...
ED RENWICK [Baton Rouge definitely needs some help with its infrastructure.] If we had capacity problems before...
JOHN DAVIES What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So m...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR. I wish I could run an open with a baton in my hand. I've grown up with a baton in my hand. It's kind...
KYLA SCHMIDT Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympu...
ALISON JACKSON When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS They will do everything they can to make sure the game happens in Baton Rouge. I'm rooting for them....
GARY STOKAN I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don'...
JOSHUA BELL For although I feel that I know a tremendous lot, I am not yet aware how much there is in the world ...
L. FRANK BAUM When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boat...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU We have units on the ground there in Baton Rouge with satellite dishes, mobile base stations and a l...
RAMESH RAO I met with him last week in Baton Rouge to clarify the rules of appointment of a civil servant. I as...
DARRYL WAGLEY Those who landed in Rhode Island or Utah, I doubt will stay, ... But those in Baton Rouge, Shrevepor...
CHARLIE COOK And then if everything comes together as we hope it will, we will move to Baton Rouge and that will ...
CAROLYN DINEEN KING I am a lawyer and 22 years the mayor of Davao City. I served as congressman of the first district fo...
RODRIGO DUTERTE Just about everywhere we go a hurricane hits. You just can't believe it. ... It's like a black cloud...
AARON BROOKS I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.
EDWARD KOCH We believed that the first priority was not to interfere with any relief efforts that were accommoda...
JOE BROWNE We believed that the first priority was not to interfere with any relief efforts that were accommoda...
JOE BROWNE I am a good fan of Al Gore, but I am also equally supportive of other candidates out there,
DONNA BRAZILE I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five y...
KAPIL SHARMA We don't know where they are going to try to set up shop. It may be Baton Rouge; it may be Shrevepor...
DICK CARELLI I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all th...
NAOMI KLEIN I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN If you drew a circle around Baton Rouge, you'd have to go pretty far out to find any venue that had ...
BERNARD BOUDREAUX

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I write novels and other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
JACK L. CHALKER If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
JACK L. CHALKER I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
JACK L. CHALKER I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the S...
JACK L. CHALKER Decadence is wonderful.
JACK L. CHALKER I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
JACK L. CHALKER No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in the...
JACK L. CHALKER First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out rea...
JACK L. CHALKER Curse him to eternal damnation! Yes! Of course!" came the emotional reply.

"Don't curse h...
JACK L. CHALKER ...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationali...
JACK L. CHALKER Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.
JACK L. CHALKER Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
JACK L. WARNER I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
JACK L. WARNER I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.
JACK L. WARNER I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
JACK L. WARNER You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself.
JACK L. WARNER Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
JACK L. WARNER Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals
L Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that.
L Your cynical ways define your soul as you treat the people who love you with nothing more than utter...
L Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely
L A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
L. SCHEFER One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
L. ESTRANGE The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the m...
L. SCHEFER It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything ...
L. ESTRANGE Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
L HILL Dreams are stages where lies and truths intertwine in and endless dance. It is in the waking world t...
L. FILLOON Continuing a short series on authenticity: "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentia...
L. SWETENHAM Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.
L BERTSCH Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are ...
L. ESTRANGE We are all related because our DNA is the same with our very first mother (Eve).
METTRIE L. Undesirable behaviors can be changed positively by using behavior modification.
METTRIE L. Love conquers everything even karma.
METTRIE L. Life is full of endless possibilities.
METTRIE L. The true purpose of pain in one's life is to grow strong--in faith, spirit, and emotions.
METTRIE L. Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world wil...
LAURA L. You’re the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb
L. DUARTE You can’t just bring a regular human here! What if the girl runs and tells the whole world on that...
L. TAYLOR I’m not good with these types of girls, I had thought as Avena lay there in the middle of the bed,...
L. JAYNE I think that the play is doing good work. And the volunteers, not only the audience, have grown from...
BOB L. That's our policy. We're not looking for fame. Our aim here is to carry a message.
BOB L. We get standing ovations wherever we go. If this didn't work, I would have quit long ago.
BOB L. Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.
METTRIE L. Everyone has psychic abilities. It's just a matter of tapping into it.
METTRIE L. There is a special bond between twin soul mates--unconditional love, respect for each other, bringin...
METTRIE L. It's no coincidence that every person have more than 1 soulmates.
METTRIE L. In the beginning, there was silence.
L. PENELOPE Parce qu'il y a certaines habitudes qui deviennent vitales. Aussi futiles soient elles, elles devien...
CAMILLE L. Mais ça veut dire quoi d'abord "mon livre", ton livre ? Que tu l'as acheté ? Qu'on te l'a donné ?...
MéLISSANDRE L. I wasn’t brave, or strong, or badass. And all those quirky lines I fed you? A foolish attempt at s...
L. DUARTE I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the p...
L. DUARTE Dreaming is good. But working to make those dreams come true is even better.
JOEL L. We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbe...
L. DUARTE Film allows you to see life differently, or see life you've never experienced, ... When it does that...
L. SPARKS The fair has worked hard to provide a family atmosphere over the past 10 years, ... We encourage eve...
L. SPARKS The addition of Beanstalk to the Omnicom network will further expand the services that we offer clie...
L. HARRISON It would have been easy simply to take another job somewhere else. But that wasn't Bernie Marcus. He...
L. HARRISON What enables one person to launch a business at fifty when other people, faced with being laid off, ...
L. HARRISON 'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him
L. ESTRANGE We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry
L. ESTRANGE It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
L. ESTRANGE Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny...
L. ESTRANGE It’s a mistake to act as though we’re not created equal.
It’s another mistake not to corr...
L. ANTHONY Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world...
JACK HERER I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.
JACK WHITEHALL With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
JACK NICHOLSON The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today'...
JACK REED The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
JACK PALANCE Perfectionists are their own devils.
JACK KIRBY Control your own destiny or someone else will.
JACK WELCH I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
JACK CANFIELD If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensatio...
JACK WELCH Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma...
JACK KEROUAC If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll snea...
JACK NICKLAUS It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their att...
JACK ZIPES Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
JACK ZIPES In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration ...
JACK ZIPES I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and ...
JACK ZIPES 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their...
JACK ZIPES Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, ...
JACK ZIPES The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because ...
JACK ZIPES Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfu...
JACK ZIPES What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly th...
JACK ZIPES Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
JACK WILD I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business h...
JACK WILD I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long a...
JACK WILD I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. ...
JACK WILD I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Stree...
JACK WILD It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you ar...
JACK WILD There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
JACK WILD At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly t...
JACK WILD My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
JACK WILD I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
JACK WHITTAKER It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
JACK WHITTAKER If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
JACK WHITTAKER I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
JACK WHITTAKER I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
JACK WHITTAKER I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.
JACK WHITTAKER Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist&...
JACK WHITEHALL I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
JACK WHITEHALL Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're no...
JACK WHITEHALL My dad doesn't hug me enough!
JACK WHITEHALL I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I ...
JACK WHITEHALL My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't suc...
JACK WHITEHALL I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
JACK WHITEHALL I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm...
JACK WHITEHALL I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
JACK WHITEHALL There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.
JACK WHITEHALL I eat healthily, as it keeps my energy up.
JACK WHITEHALL Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public scho...
JACK WHITEHALL I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to ha...
JACK WHITEHALL Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
JACK WHITEHALL When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck te...
JACK WHITEHALL Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the sa...
JACK WHITEHALL I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like ...
JACK WHITEHALL If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
JACK WHITEHALL I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is ...
JACK WHITEHALL I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.
JACK WHITEHALL When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
JACK WHITEHALL I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in ...
JACK WHITEHALL I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
JACK WHITEHALL I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
JACK WHITEHALL If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes ...
JACK WHITEHALL Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ...
JACK WHITE A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th...
JACK WHITE I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ...
JACK WHITE I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri...
JACK WHITE There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ...
JACK WHITE If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e...
JACK WHITE We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s...
JACK WHITE I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But...
JACK WHITE I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th...
JACK WHITE I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing...
JACK WHITE I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther...
JACK WHITE Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ...
JACK WHITE I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li...
JACK WHITE I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong...
JACK WHITE With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...
JACK WHITE When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h...
JACK WHITE I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than ...
JACK WHITE I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Ro...
JACK WHITE There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&...
JACK WHITE I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to real...
JACK WHITE One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when yo...
JACK WELCH Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous...
JACK WELCH Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'...
JACK WELCH Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
JACK WELCH Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five yea...
JACK WELCH I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
JACK WELCH There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and ...
JACK WELCH You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while y...
JACK WELCH The team with the best players wins.
JACK WELCH Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confus...
JACK WELCH A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around ...
JACK WELCH Change before you have to.
JACK WELCH Be candid with everyone.
JACK WELCH If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
JACK WARNER I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.
JACK WARNER 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even young...
JACK WAGNER I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &...
JACK WAGNER I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theate...
JACK WAGNER By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really mak...
JACK WAGNER Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. On...
JACK WAGNER I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in la...
JACK WAGNER We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those ...
JACK WAGNER My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from fou...
JACK WAGNER My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mothe...
JACK WAGNER My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me co...
JACK WAGNER Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
JACK WAGNER Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going ...
JACK WAGNER My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
JACK WAGNER I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
JACK VANCE I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
JACK VANCE I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
JACK VANCE I never worked in an office in my life.
JACK VANCE I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly f...
JACK VANCE I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years...
JACK VANCE I'd never been published when I was young.
JACK VANCE In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
JACK VANCE Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it...
JACK VANCE So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use...
JACK VANCE Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn...
JACK VANCE There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha...
JACK VANCE Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
JACK VANCE But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer s...
JACK VANCE I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
JACK VANCE I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
JACK VANCE This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting...
JACK VANCE I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
JACK VANCE I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
JACK VANCE A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be c...
JACK VANCE But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
JACK VANCE Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew...
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