James Woods Quotes
I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
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I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!
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Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.
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I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
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The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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Just like we don't live in a two-dimensional world, we don't live two-dimensional lives.
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I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.
