Jack Tatum Quotes

#1. It always felt like I had to be a realist.

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#2. I was just working on music and reading. It was relaxing. I would just stay up so late for no reason because I was bored.

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#3. If I had to go into a battle and I needed someone loyal and courageous to cover my blindside, I know damn well Woody would be my man. I know, too, that God hasn't created a more generous, compassionate, or more understanding man than Woody Hayes.

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#4. Jack Tatum could hit a man so hard that it would lift both his feet
off the ground.

Woody Hayes

#5. I didn't try and say anything terribly meaningful. I'm definitely not a social commentator at all.

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#6. I was a very private person. All of a sudden, to see myself all over the internet and be like, "Oh god, do I want people to even hear this stuff?"

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#7. There is nothing worse than a completely ignorant person operating with complete conviction. That

Juliette Harper

#8. It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't.

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#9. If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you.

B.C. Forbes

#10. I don't place too much importance on words. It's always the last thing I do because I'm definitely more interested in mood.

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#11. I make the music that I make because that's what naturally comes to me.

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#12. I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.

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#13. Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.

Alan Moore

#14. My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head ... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

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#15. Satan's gotta get along without me. Since I've broke the chain of sin I know for sure that he can't win.

Buck Owens

#16. All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.

Maurice Sendak

#17. Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

Mark Nepo

#18. I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.

Earl Campbell

#19. Don't we all hope to die with a smile on our faces?

Jeff O'Brien

#20. We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

Franklin P. Adams

#21. Strong believer in doing what needs to get done.

James S.A. Corey

#22. We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic.

Caroline Dhavernas

#23. Since I didn't spend a great amount of time on writing the lyrics, some people would argue that they're too vague or simplistic, but I think it's kind of good. I wouldn't say they're all stream of consciousness, but they're not necessarily overwrought.

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#24. I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.

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#25. I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.

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#26. The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician."

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#27. I like Ministry, but I'm probably never going to make a song that sounds like Ministry.

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#28. Be bold enough to appreciate. Be strong enough not to criticize.

Debasish Mridha

#29. The gays, the kids, the misfits, the freaks, the ones who feel like they don't have a place... you got it. Just be you.

Michelle Visage

#30. I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest.

Billy Martin

#31. People quickly forget that people are people.

Jack Tatum

#32. In the 1970s, I bought some cheap horses, then decided that if I was going to be in it, I was going to go big time. So in 2001, Bill Casner, a partner with me in Excel, and I bought a breeding farm, WinStar Farm, together.

Kenny Troutt