You don't ask nobody to give what they can't give, or be what they can't be. You've learnt that, you got a headstart on heartbreak.


Jack Farris

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- All get finded in the hard way.
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If you cant beat them buy them
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This would cause many of the same problems as full repeal.
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
JACK WHITTAKER
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JACK WHITTAKER
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I eat healthily, as it keeps my energy up.
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Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
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I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous...
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'...
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five yea...
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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and ...
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The team with the best players wins.
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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.
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'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even young...
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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...
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JACK WAGNER
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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.
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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...
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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...
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...
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