Jeffrey Tambor Quotes

As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

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• My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Parents
  • Movement
  • Students

• If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Home
  • History
  • Deep

• We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Listen

• I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

  

  Manute Bol
  • War
  • Never
  • Gone

• I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I don't think you can understand Trump's relationship to his voters and how he gets away with what he gets away with, without understanding the pact between a lifestyle brand and its consumer base and how that really transformed the global economy in the 1990s.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Understanding

• Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women

• I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Life
  • Change
  • Conversation

• I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly says, 'Ooh, 'Downton' started this week.' You completely forget it's staggered across the world.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • World
  • Past
  • Week

• I think libertarians need somebody who can articulate getting from A to Z. But you know, if G is achievable, how about it? Let's get there!

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Know
  • Need

• The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Experience
  • Bitter

• Gay rights are human rights.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Gay

• Your problem has nothing to do with git, and everything to do with emacs. And then you have the gall to talk about 'Unix design' and not gumming programs together, when you yourself use the most gummed-up piece of absolute sh*t there is!

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Up
  • Together
  • Design

• I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

  

  Lorene Scafaria
  • School
  • High

• I took business and economics courses. More than anything, I learned the proper steps and the things that need to be outlined. You have to keep your books: how much money you made, how much money you're spending, what you profited, and what you're gonna need for expenses.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Money
  • Business

• He's a nice guy who will never change the Senate. He is the Senate. Eighteen years in politics, and he's got two cousins who are senators, too. Mark Udall's dad even ran for president.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Nice

• People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It hasn't been anything that's been overwhelming or anything, but I do get recognized here and there.

  

  Danny McBride

• No one can be a true nationalist who is incapable of feeling ashamed if his or her state or government commits crimes including those against their fellow citizens.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Government
  • Citizens
  • Nationalist

• Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Newborn
  • Attending
  • Supple

• Carrie Underwood was just a small-town Oklahoma girl with big dreams in 2005 when she competed on the fourth season of 'American Idol.' She is one of the few true 'American Idol' success stories and went on to have incredible career success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • She
  • American
  • True

• At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Future
  • Health
  • Service

• For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is to bee interpreted; and they that insist upon single Texts, without considering the main Designe, can derive no thing from them clearly; but rather by casting atomes of Scripture, as dust before mens eyes, make everything more obscure than it is; an ordinary artifice of those who seek not the truth, but their own advantage.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Words
  • Advantage
  • Scripture

• As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

  

  Jeffrey Tambor