Jeff Buckley Quotes
People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wondering if I was going to make it in wrestling; I got injured in a match. I was 19. I was away from home, living in Florida, and I just got lost. I couldn't face it, so I stepped away.
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I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.
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The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.
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I don't believe in acting teachers for me, so it's God's joke that he gave me a best friend who's an acting teacher.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.
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The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
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People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!
