Jeffrey Tambor Quotes

I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.

Jeffrey Tambor

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• As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

  

  Quintilian
  • Parents
  • Alone
  • Educated

• In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Best
  • Opinion
  • Georgia

• The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

  

  Ice T
  • Last
  • Tyranny
  • Bear

• I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Band

• I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Drama

• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Idea
  • Rich
  • Authentic

• There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Kind

• Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Write
  • Paris
  • Inspires

• It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Countries
  • Notion

• There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Children
  • Better
  • Makeup

• Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Freedom
  • Human
  • Illusion

• You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Done
  • Software
  • Fix

• This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Intense

• Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • Money
  • Blue

• War is, in fact, an extension of politics, and in any war, military operations have to be conducted in such a way that they contribute to sustainable political outcomes consistent with vital interests that are at stake in that war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Music
  • Christian
  • Album

• Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Culture
  • Progress

• I owe my mum Jane a lot, as she's supported me all the way, so I'm very lucky.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • She

• We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • Doubt
  • Civilization
  • Excellence

• People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.

  

  Sandra Oh
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Mind
  • Stop

• I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor