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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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!
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You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you're out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.
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Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
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I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.
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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.
