Jeff Bridges Quotes
We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'
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If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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Dead men tell no tales.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.
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It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?
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You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
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We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.
