Jack Dee Quotes

If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

Jack Dee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

Joanna Newsom

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I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.

John Grant

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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

John F. Kennedy

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Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

Matt Taibbi

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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Robert Burton

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I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.

Lucy Larcom

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I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.

Jay London

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In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

Jasper Fforde

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But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

China Mieville

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I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

Claire Messud

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I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

Annie Lennox

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