"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."

-- Dorothy Parker

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“No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion. Whose intelligence? Whose design?”
“I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.”
“If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.”
“My job happens to be sports-related, so it's like my duty to watch football. It's my job. But that's not a change for me. When you're 18, it's life and death, because you don't have a kid, and it's a much bigger deal when you're 18. Having a kid - when the Vikings lost the 2009 NFC title game, it sucked, and I'm not happy about it, but my kid is still alive. You have to have that horrible forced perspective that you don't want.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Beware of clichÃ©s. Not just the ÂclichÃ©s that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichÃ©s of response as well as expression. There are clichÃ©s of observation and of thought - even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are ÂclichÃ©s of form which conform to clichÃ©s of expectation.”
“Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.”

Source : "Meet Jack Jason: The Most Famous Interpreter in the World". Interview with Nataly Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.
“A named thing is a tamed thing.”

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