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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Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
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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 -
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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(perhaps a different and better translation of the same remark) quoted by Barbara Tuchman in The Guns of August (Random House, 1962)
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I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.
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I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.
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The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.
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I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.
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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.
