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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You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
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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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Have faith in yourself; faith in the infinite.
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My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.
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Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.
