Jeff Goldblum Quotes

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

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• In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

  

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• You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

  

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• What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

  

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• Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.

  

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• Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

  

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• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

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  • Long
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• Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Talent
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• Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.

  

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  • People
  • Good
  • Amazing

• I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.

  

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  • Games
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• Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

  

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  • Government
  • Politics
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• I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Career
  • Football
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• I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • See
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• We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

  

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  • Going
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• You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.

  

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• America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

  

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  • God
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• I've tried, in my own life, to speak up when I see harassment occurring. But I want to acknowledge that there are probably situations and instances where I could have done more. I think that's an acknowledgment that all men need to make.

  

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  • Growing

• Donald Trump's America can be friend and ally, or at least an indifferent power that concentrates on itself and minds its own business.

  

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  • Friend
  • Prison
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• You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.

  

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  • Human
  • See
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• A flower blossoms for its own joy.

  

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  • Joy
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  • Blossoms

• My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Friend
  • Fishing