Jeff Bridges Quotes
I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.
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My family background was deeply Christian.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
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I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.
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I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.
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I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
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I had to make lifestyle changes and stick to them for the rest of my life. For instance, I've had to give up bread, rice, sugar, and oil completely.
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I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.
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I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.
