Jason Bateman Quotes
I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
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I will be a complete man, a complete athlete, with a fight with Roy Jones Jr.
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I do what I do best - and that's take it away from every one else.
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There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.
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I think it's important to remember that to exercise you don't have to run a sprint.
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The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.
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I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.
