Jason Bateman Quotes

I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.

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• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Me
  • Travel

• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Why
  • Home

• Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Love
  • Never

• My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Father
  • Like

• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Awesome
  • Moss

• There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Lawyer

• You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Vote

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Society
  • Eye

• My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Book
  • Me
  • Mom

• In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Practice
  • Teacher

• When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Music
  • Punk
  • Pure

• A goal properly set is halfway reached.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Goal
  • Halfway
  • Properly

• It is a frequent vice of radical polemic to assert, and even to believe, that once you have found the lowest motive for an antagonist, you have identified the correct one. - 'Reactionary Prophet', The Atlantic, April 2004

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Believe
  • April

• Octavian’s patron, Apollo, the god of reason, had defeated Antony’s patron, Hercules, the symbol of might.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Defeated
  • Symbol
  • God Of Reason

• Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Never
  • Used
  • Presence

• I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Mother
  • Grandmother