Jeff Bridges Quotes
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.
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I kind of miss the hatchet days of Mr. Fairchild at 'WWD', when they really took no prisoners and there was sort of outrageous favoritism and its inverse.
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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the 'best' American higher criticism.
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
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In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
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Jung believed that alchemy is about the transmutation of of the mind and the discovery of the self. Inevitably, he saw the male and female elements of the prima materia - the king and queen of alchemy - as the animus and anima; this seemed to indicate the (sic) alchemy is about psychological processes.
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Success is cutting off all of your options for failure.
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Achilles absent was Achilles still!
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I gotta take notes when things occur to me.
