Jeff Bridges Quotes
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
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Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
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Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
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When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
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The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on your list of fast-playing golfers.
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Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.
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Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
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The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.
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For me personally, Elliott Carter was and remains one of the most meaningful composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries because he represents substance. He was the living proof of uncompromising, complex music, which at first seems inaccessible. But it becomes accessible if one digs in and sees the development through.
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Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.
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I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.
