Jeffrey Tambor Quotes

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

Jeffrey Tambor

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• Winning
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• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

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• Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

  

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• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

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• And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

  

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• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  

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• I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.

  

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• Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

  

  Samantha Smith
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• I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.

  

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• I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.

  

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• I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.

  

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• 'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.

  

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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

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• I'm confident and really optimistic.

  

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• If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.

  

  Randy Weber
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• Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

  

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• Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

  

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• The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

  

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• Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

  

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• I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It's our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind that: if I remember who I really am and why I'm on the earth, then I more naturally want to treat my body like a temple and so forth.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that they started overtakes them, and they lose the ability to direct things anymore, and they become essentially riders on a wild stallion, and wherever the movement goes, wherever power takes them, they have to go along.

  

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• I don't see why it gives people the right to know about my private life if I don't want to talk about it.

  

  Kevin Whately
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• This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Remember
  • City
  • Winning