Jason Bateman Quotes
Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going to let me screw around my life anymore, so I stopped drinking and started behaving like a decent human being.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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Fashion anticipates.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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It's not like I was just dropped onto a snowboard and I was able to go 15 feet into the air. There was a lot of hard work that came with it. That's something that people don't really notice sometimes and the amount of sacrifice my family made.
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Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.
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You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.
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With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.
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I love domestic life.
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Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going to let me screw around my life anymore, so I stopped drinking and started behaving like a decent human being.
