Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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I am just one human being.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
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I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
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I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.
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The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.
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'Off With Their Heads' by Frances Marion. I love a showbusiness autobiography - and this one resonates because it's written by one of the great Hollywood screenwriters.
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Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.
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But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
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There are secrets in families. That is the definition of a family.
