Jeff Goldblum Quotes
It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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Square meals often make round people.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
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Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.
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If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.
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I loved filming in Morocco; it was amazing. I'd never been anywhere like that. The culture was phenomenal. I was so blown away by the spirit of that country.
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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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This trip, you've got to do a lot of PR work for the league, pump up that Miami game on Christmas Day because they're asking you to do this all the time. And don't forget, Orlando is just as important in the win-loss column.
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It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.
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It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.
