Jack Kornfield
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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 ... 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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. 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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 It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Cany... JACK SCHMITT My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War. JACK SCALIA There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know. JACK SCALIA I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that ser... JACK SCALIA I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war. JACK SCALIA You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles. JACK SCALIA But this country is a great country and will always rebound. JACK SCALIA Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. ... JACK SCALIA Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby. JACK SCALIA I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent ... JACK REYNOR I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor c... JACK REYNOR With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play... JACK REYNOR As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. 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