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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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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He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Union as deep in debt as are many of the States, and to subjugate the whole to the paper system.
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There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?
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An actor should be judged by his performance only.
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Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
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We did our best the last couple of weeks, we really put on a push. But the teams ahead of us were also playing playoff hockey.
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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.
