Jason Bateman Quotes
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don't want to.
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I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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I'm an actor who directs. Probably always will be.
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I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.
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I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.
