Jeff Ross Quotes
Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.
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I love sharing my life with people.
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I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.
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When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
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I was kind of a slap hitter, trying to get base hits, hit line drives, stay below a certain trajectory with my ball.
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Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.
