Jeff Bridges Quotes
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.
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I am no mother, and I won't be one.
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One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.
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I can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it. When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.
