Jason Bateman Quotes

I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.

Jason Bateman

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• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

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• When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

  

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• Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

  

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• For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

  

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• No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

  

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• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

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• The good romances are as good as anything.

  

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• Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

  

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• I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.

  

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• I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Art
  • Band