Jeff Bridges Quotes
We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking.
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I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
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As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.
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The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.
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We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
