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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.


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JACK VALENTI I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my presiden...
JACK VALENTI There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
JACK VALENTI The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films ...
JACK VALENTI The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
JACK VALENTI Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
JACK VALENTI No one today knows what is indecent.
JACK VALENTI There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
JACK STRAW It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u...
JACK STRAW In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. L...
JACK STEINBERGER In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the famil...
JACK STEINBERGER I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
JACK STEINBERGER I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
JACK STEINBERGER I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generatio...
JACK STEINBERGER I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depressio...
JACK STEINBERGER In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We wer...
JACK STEINBERGER I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to...
JACK STEINBERGER I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
JACK STEINBERGER It's great that people are interested in Mars.
JACK SCHMITT But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base ...
JACK SCHMITT