Jeffrey Tambor Quotes

I had a bilateral lisp, and I was overweight. I was the kid who played with the flowers on the ground in the outfield during baseball. I was that kid.

Jeffrey Tambor

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• I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Different
  • Important
  • Happy

• We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Suffering
  • Humanity

• I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Book

• Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Power
  • Want
  • Information

• An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Size
  • January
  • Immigrant

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Man
  • Woman

• I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Embarrassed
  • Apologetic

• 'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Party
  • Everything
  • Press

• I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Think
  • Hate

• There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • Music
  • Between

• Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Life
  • Spirit
  • Mark

• When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • Respect
  • End

• Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Anger
  • Atmosphere

• I love a man who can wear my underwear.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Man
  • Wear
  • Underwear

• I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

  

  Ira Levin
  • Back
  • Royalty
  • Send

• I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • She
  • Remember
  • History

• If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Internet
  • California
  • Rights

• If you're presented with choices that steer you toward your worst instincts, that's what you'll choose. If I'm presented with Snickers bars, I won't necessarily seek out kale.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Choices

• You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Good
  • Different
  • Song

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Love
  • Football
  • Baseball

• I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

  

  Jacob Ruppert
  • Up
  • Time
  • Strong

• I had a bilateral lisp, and I was overweight. I was the kid who played with the flowers on the ground in the outfield during baseball. I was that kid.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Baseball