Jeff Goldblum Quotes
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.
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There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.
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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life.
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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I am terrified of submarines.
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The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.
