Jeff Bridges Quotes
My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.
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Basically the French are all peasants.
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I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
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I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.
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I will term-limit myself probably before I would have enough seniority to get a committee chairmanship.
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My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.
