Jason Bateman Quotes
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.
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My signature fragrance would be herbal - basil mixed with rosemary and coriander. Some big stars have got perfume lines that smell really bad. They've got it all wrong.
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
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I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.
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Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.
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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.
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Militat omnis amans
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I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.
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She'd seen people stand on the shoulders of hate and pluck money and power from the very top shelves of the universe.
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People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
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It's not an easy thing to be let go.
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Nothing could have been greater than the pride of serving this city. I do not believe - I am sure I speak for my colleagues on all sides - nothing else that happens to us in our lives will be as rewarding and fulfilling as the years that we have spent in this building.
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I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.