Jeff Bridges Quotes

I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.

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• I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Think
  • You
  • Outsider

• The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Future
  • Risk
  • Holocaust

• When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Black

• I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Want
  • Remembered

• I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Love
  • Done

• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Know
  • Rock

• I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Better
  • Name
  • Dignity

• I had plenty of vices growing up.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Day
  • Suffering

• I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some very, very preliminary discussions about doing it. Obviously, I can't do it myself, but there are a lot of people interested in that.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Real
  • Myself

• I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Kind

• While technology and assessment can help complement the important work of our teachers, I worry that we are spending too much of our time testing.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• But what gave him the most satisfaction was going back through the pages to read about his first story appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. That afternoon he'd bought Bird the largest bag of lemon drops he could find. 'He gives her candy,' she had said, remembering too.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Bird
  • Saturday

• Note the men’s fear that if they reported this to the authorities, not only would they not be believed, they would be ridiculed.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Fear

• Good evening, daddy I know you’ve heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Good
  • Dream

• The notion that the Constitution of the United States, designed, among other things, 'to establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, . . . and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,' prohibits the States from simply banning this visibly brutal means of eliminating our half-born posterity is quite simply absurd.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Justice

• I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. … Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years - I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.

  

  Al Gore
  • Children
  • May
  • Experience

• It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

  

  Arthur Capper
  • Future
  • Environment

• Being on a major network television show is like long-distance running: You have to pace yourself and maintain your energy level and your morale. There's the role you're playing on the show, and there's also your behind-the-scenes responsibility to the crew, the guest actors and the fans - not to mention your own life as a mom.

  

  Kathryn Erbe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Energy

• My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, that's how I get introduced.

  

  Ben Nicholas
  • Game

• I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.

  

  Walter Farley
  • People
  • Important
  • Remember

• I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.

  

  Jeff Bridges