Jeff Long Quotes
They cut maybe a little too much. They cut costs and now their costs are in pretty good shape. But their reputation among passengers has slipped at a time when their competitors are really focusing on service, trying to attract business class passengers.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
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I'm curvy.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.
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Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
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There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
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They cut maybe a little too much. They cut costs and now their costs are in pretty good shape. But their reputation among passengers has slipped at a time when their competitors are really focusing on service, trying to attract business class passengers.
