Jeff Bridges Quotes
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Some media outlets refer to 'protesters' and 'militia members,' not 'terrorists,' even though armed antigovernment extremists seizing federal property and expressing a desire to kill and die is a textbook description of domestic terrorism.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.
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I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.
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Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.
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Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special.
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We know that 99.9% of Arab-Israelis are loyal to Israel.
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Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.
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Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.
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I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Our responsibility is to protect people and help them into work.
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When you win one on this day, they become special ones and they get a special place in the barn. We've been blessed with some good ones.
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For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.
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I'm not counting any chickens.
