Jack Dee Quotes

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

Jack Dee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 24, 1962

Topics

DepressionSaturdayProblemMeeting

The question of many college quarterbacks is can they operate in the pro game, in the pro system. Can they not only function under the early, especially with our game, but can they do it efficiently?

Jerry Jones

CollegeGameEarlyQuestionSystem

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.

Jennifer Egan

WorkMeWork HardWinYouKnow

I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren't necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.

Jennifer Garner

LookingDirectionThinkYouLook

Kids increase people's risk of eviction.

Matthew Desmond

PeopleRiskKidsIncrease

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

Amanda Burton

ThinkEndYouEmotionsKnowUp

I just talk just to talk. I like to see what other people think. There's some things somebody tweets me every day where I'm like, 'Wow, I never thought of this issue that way.' It starts great conversation with people who I would never get a chance to actually communicate with.

Torrey Smith

GreatDayPeopleMeChanceThink

When you put a new show out, you always have a few kinks that you need to iron out, and you need to dial your show in. You figure out over a couple of weeks what songs work well together and what songs may not have the impact you thought they would at that spot in the show.

Jay DeMarcus

WorkTogetherThoughtImpactYou

An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year - an economy like America's - is not likely to do well over the long haul.

Joseph Stiglitz

AmericaDoingYearLongEconomy

The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on a quality basis with an established product.

Clayton M. Christensen

GoodTechnologyQualityMistakeYou

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

WorkWorldWhyUnderstandNeedSort

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.

Bob Saget

WorkGoodGood WorkProblemsTrying

There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind of nostalgia for them that I won't let go. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag.

Pete Wentz

ChanceBlackThinkBe DifferentMad

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