Jeff Bridges Quotes
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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
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You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that-and I want you to believe it, too.
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With the solo stuff, it's like starting over from scratch. It's rolling up your sleeves and getting down to work.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
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One picture is worth a thousand words.
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Words fall short sometimes.
