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Jack Dempsey

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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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JACK DEMPSEY All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
JACK DEMPSEY Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
JACK DEMPSEY Honey, I forgot to duck.
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PATRICK DEMPSEY I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as o...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect l...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it w...
PATRICK DEMPSEY When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself...
PATRICK DEMPSEY Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
PATRICK DEMPSEY The American people should not wonder where their military leaders draw the line between military ad...
MARTIN DEMPSEY One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best complimen...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I graduated from West Point in 1974. It was an all-male institution. I went back to teach at West Po...
MARTIN DEMPSEY Advocates for Youth believes that all young people have the right to balanced, accurate, and realist...
CAEDEN DEMPSEY The Keep it REAL campaign is about increasing necessary Senate support for the REAL Act.
CAEDEN DEMPSEY The Fix the Gap campaign is beginning with an educational focus. We're encouraging young people to s...
CAEDEN DEMPSEY We launched the campaigns for several reasons. First, to educate the public on the importance of com...
CAEDEN DEMPSEY If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.
PATRICK DEMPSEY Most of them lead lives of unquiet desperation, continually seeking, in sex they wish was love and i...
DAVID DEMPSEY The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.
TOM DEMPSEY What do you mean you are intercepting the wrong subject? How often does it occur? How long does it g...
JAMES DEMPSEY The awakening has begun!
WILLIAM DEMPSEY The awakening has begun!.
WILLIAM DEMPSEY You can't go out there and just chill and be lackadaisical. You're not going to win games. You've go...
CLINT DEMPSEY My belief is that when the military is used as the sole instrument of power, that never has a good o...
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JAMES DEMPSEY They didn't know what they were doing.
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JACK WILD I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long a...
JACK WILD I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. ...
JACK WILD I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Stree...
JACK WILD It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you ar...
JACK WILD There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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JACK WILD My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
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JACK WHITTAKER If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
JACK WHITTAKER I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
JACK WHITTAKER I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
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JACK WHITEHALL I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to ha...
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JACK WHITEHALL I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.
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JACK WHITEHALL I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
JACK WHITEHALL I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
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JACK WHITE A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th...
JACK WHITE I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ...
JACK WHITE I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri...
JACK WHITE There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ...
JACK WHITE If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e...
JACK WHITE We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s...
JACK WHITE I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But...
JACK WHITE I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th...
JACK WHITE I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing...
JACK WHITE I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther...
JACK WHITE Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ...
JACK WHITE I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li...
JACK WHITE I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong...
JACK WHITE With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...
JACK WHITE When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h...
JACK WHITE I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than ...
JACK WHITE I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Ro...
JACK WHITE There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&...
JACK WHITE I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to real...
JACK WHITE One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when yo...
JACK WELCH Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous...
JACK WELCH Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'...
JACK WELCH Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
JACK WELCH Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five yea...
JACK WELCH I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
JACK WELCH There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and ...
JACK WELCH You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while y...
JACK WELCH The team with the best players wins.
JACK WELCH Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confus...
JACK WELCH A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around ...
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