Jeff Bridges Quotes
The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
Rachel Griffiths
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
Patrick Lencioni
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
Zachary Quinto
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
Harold Brodkey
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
Lao Tzu
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
Karin Slaughter
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
Gary Burghoff
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
Naomi Campbell
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
Carl Van Vechten
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I crave attention and adventure.
Eddie Cibrian
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
Carlos Ghosn
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
Gabe Newell
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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
Fanny Brice
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
Madchen Amick
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
Tavi Gevinson
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
A. J. P. Taylor
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You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile.
Keith Stanfield
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
Umberto Eco
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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
Jim Yong Kim
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The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.
Jeff Bridges