Jeff Bridges Quotes
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The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
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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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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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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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My pride fell with my fortunes.
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Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Achebe. Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you don’t. Read the genres you love, but sometimes also read a book outside your comfort zone. Read voraciously.
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Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.
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I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.
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The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.
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I gotta take notes when things occur to me.
