Jeff Bridges Quotes
Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.
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I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
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I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
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Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.
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Before I got the contract, I'd heard from a lot of people that a contract with a company like Estee Lauder was like a stamp of approval, a stamp of your legit-ness. So getting that was a really big step for me.
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We Houstonians, generally speaking, are hearty. The weather's too hot for us not to be.
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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.
