Jason Robards Quotes
I did a lot of violent junk just because I needed the money - alimony movies, you might call them - and then I decided to start turning down the junk scripts and wait for something better, no matter how long.
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
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And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.
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Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
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When you get out of school, you just go where the wind blows: Here's an audition; there's an audition. And before you know it, you're where you're supposed to be. And that was Second City.
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I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
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I did a lot of violent junk just because I needed the money - alimony movies, you might call them - and then I decided to start turning down the junk scripts and wait for something better, no matter how long.
