Jeff Goldblum Quotes
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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I've been wanting kids for 10 years. I'd love to adopt, have them naturally - all of it. I want, like, 15.
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We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.
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I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one... I would hope.
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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
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As long as those things are on vinyl or tape or what have you, the record companies are going to release them someday.
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And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.
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Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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I want to be remembered as one of the best record producers of my era.
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What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.
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To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,' I've got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It's an individual game versus a team game.
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I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.
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Even though the play [The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to make ends meet and to "have a little fun along the way" have a very contemporary feel. The similarity between the The Great Depression and The Great Recession - as well as the gulf between the super-rich and the ordinary Joe - still rings a bell. One of the things this production accentuates is how beautifully Grandpa and his family accept all kinds of people - rich or poor, black or white - and the best thing that can happen to you is to be part of a loving family.
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A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.
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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
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Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.
