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Jack Whittaker

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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
JACK WHITTAKER I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i...
ROBERT KENNEDY Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
KAREN KAIN Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wou...
LAURA WADE Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.
DAVID SEDARIS Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record.
DUNCAN SHEIK If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
W. C. FIELDS If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.
ROD MCKUEN If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i...
ANON QUOTER Do it and they will follow
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything...
JOHN LENNON I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like t...
STANA KATIC I'd love to do more comedy. It'd just be nice to go into work and not be crying every day. S...
FELICITY JONES You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
JENNIFER SCHMIDT It's a spinoff of the original Cracker Jack, but it's Cracker Jack'd. Frito Lay, when th...
ASHLEY TISDALE If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
LARISA OLEYNIK We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change ...
JEAN SMART If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.
FREDDIE MERCURY If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.
BILLY SHEEHAN If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rathe...
JAMES HETFIELD Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER I had a lot of time to think about it, but didn't do a very good job planning for the move. If I had...
JOANN ANDERSON If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time.
CLAIRE FORLANI The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, ...
KEN LIVINGSTONE If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, an...
KEVIN ALEJANDRO If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did ques...
BILLY HIGGINS If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know ...
JANICE MARKOWITZ I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a d...
SARAH SNOOK If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.
ALEX TURNER I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kenne...
EVEL KNIEVEL When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which mean...
NEIL GAIMAN There's doubt in trying.
Just do it or stop thinking.
TOBA BETA Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it.
DEYTH BANGER Don't think it. Do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm ...
SERENA WILLIAMS If I had it to do over again,
DAN REEVES I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about...
LISA LING If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting...
MATT KEMP I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would ...
KYLE MACLACHLAN I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, an...
BETTE DAVIS I'd rather be a Jack-of-all-trades than master of one. If I became an icon, where my whole life ...
DICK DALE I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
JACK WHITTAKER If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so h...
CHARLES KURALT It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never ...
BRUCE PERENS The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG This is the best job, the best business. If I had it to do all over again, this is what I would be d...
CRAIG MATHEWS The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken.
JOHN LEACH I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's w...
AYUMI HAMASAKI I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, ...
ZACH BRAFF If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you&#...
DOROTHY STRATTEN I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to...
MARLEE MATLIN I'd make Jack Benny look like a philanthropist.
GILBERT GOTTFRIED I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but...
DANA HILL Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every d...
MERYL STREEP I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I...
PADDY CONSIDINE I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to...
LAURA TROTT If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's l...
CAROL CHANNING Lonesome Rhodes had wild mood swings. He'd be very happy, he'd be very said, he'd be ver...
ANDY GRIFFITH I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I h...
DAN BUCATINSKY I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN Of course I had written a film about Elizabeth I, and I loved the Tudor period, and I think at the t...
MICHAEL HIRST If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.
BILLY SHEEHAN I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
MARC NEWSON In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all ov...
BONNIE TYLER It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and ...
CARLTON FISK You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a...
REGIS PHILBIN It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
ROGER MARIS If I could bring 'The Tunnel' to life, I'd like to do it like that.
BILLY HOWLE I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish...
BILL AYERS If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
AARON NEVILLE I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if...
KIRSTIE ALLEY I remember when we were shooting 'Boogie Nights,' all of my stand-ins were wiping out all th...
HEATHER GRAHAM Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playin...
EDDIE VAN HALEN If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. ...
F. GARY GRAY If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I thi...
HEDY LAMARR I think if you have ability and talent in one way, you have it in all ways. I'm not a jack of al...
EVEL KNIEVEL I would love to have a complete family. I'd love to do it all at once. I'd love to be able t...
MICHAEL EALY I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. I...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilariou...
PAUL RUDD If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
HARRY S TRUMAN I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
BRION JAMES I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I...
FRANK MCCOURT Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's ...
DAPHNE ZUNIGA I'm not a huge scary movie kind of guy; like, I don't do slasher movies, because I'm rea...
BRENDAN ROBINSON If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
SAM WATERSTON If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any...
GARY F EVANS... To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i...
GARY F EVANS...

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JACK NICKLAUS It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their att...
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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...
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JACK WILD I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. ...
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JACK WILD It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you ar...
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JACK WHITEHALL Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're no...
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JACK WHITEHALL I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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JACK VANCE I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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JACK VANCE Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew...
JACK VANCE It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell u...
JACK VANCE The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning...
JACK VANCE As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
JACK VANCE If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
JACK VALENTI Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, at...
JACK VALENTI Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched...
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...
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