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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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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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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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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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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The more conscious of God's presence the more I feel like being myself, the less conscious of His presence, the more I feel I need to prove myself.
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.
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Life is essentially a question of values.
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The SAT is a scam.
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Being 'ethnically ambiguous', as I was pegged in the industry, meant I could audition for virtually any role. Morphing from Latina when I was dressed in red, to African American when in mustard yellow, my closet filled with fashionable frocks to make me look as racially varied as an Eighties Benetton poster.
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The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.
