Jeffrey Jones Quotes
Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future.
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Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.
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There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world.
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He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.
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Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.
