Jeff Bridges Quotes
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
Quotes to Explore
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.
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Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.
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Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.
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The true poem rests between the words.
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I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.
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It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
