Jeff Bridges Quotes
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.
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California is one of the strongest states with one of the solidest economies but, at the same time, ignores the reality of its farm workers.
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I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
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Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?
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He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back.
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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
