Jeff Bridges Quotes
You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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To lead people walk behind them.
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I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
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I stopped caring what people thought.
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
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Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.
