Jeff Long Quotes
It's kind of hard to get deep with Rodgers and Hammerstein. I can't think of a moral in the music - it's just fun.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I enjoy Saturday night racing.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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Don't do drugs to be cool, do 'em because you hate yourself.
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A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.
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If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide where you are. Whether I'm here or not, if they want you to be at the top then the people will move me out the way.
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I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
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In 1957, I was studying the Pleiades star cluster at Harvard University's radio observatory. On one occasion, we saw an added feature in the data. It turned out to be an amateur radio enthusiast near the observatory, but at the time, I thought we had detected clear evidence of another civilisation.
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It's kind of hard to get deep with Rodgers and Hammerstein. I can't think of a moral in the music - it's just fun.
