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'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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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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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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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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We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
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The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing theories existing in this field one must first gain a clear understnding of the concept "science"; for it is as a part of science that mathematics originally took its place in human thought.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
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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.
