Jeff Bridges Quotes
I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my 'War Stories' documentary series - and when FOX News wants - I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq.
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A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
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Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.
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The commanding general publishes, for the information of all concerned, that hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country will be tried as spies or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer death.
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'Black Mirror,' I read that, and I had another offer for a movie at the same time that was a bigger movie, an actual film as opposed to TV, but I said, 'No, it has to be Black Mirror.' And it hadn't been sold to Netflix, hadn't gone abroad at that point - but it's just good work - that's all there is to it.
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I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
