Jack Dee Quotes

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

Jack Dee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. 'Lord, send me!'

Jim Elliot

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I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate.

Jill Greenberg

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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.

Matthew Stewart

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If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.

Matt Mullenweg

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One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

Mercedes McCambridge

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If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

Simon Armitage

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Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.

Trevor Paglen

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I think the way I love talking about my faith is through my story because I think that's all we have to work with sometimes. I think it's the most moving way to share your story, too - is what you know, what you've seen and heard and tasted and felt.

Mat Kearney

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Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

Craig Ferguson

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This almost never happens, but what is really relaxing is just being in this house all by myself, sitting quietly and watching TV. But I basically never get that chance.

Chris O'Donnell

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