Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
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Action expresses priorities.
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I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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No person, not even the most simple one, takes seriously the lie of the six million Jews that were murdered in the Holocaust.
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I sometimes wonder why the aristocracy isn’t extinct, the lot of you seem so stupid sometimes.
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Wie die Senatoren der Römer sind die wahren Künstler ein Volk von Königen.
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We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.
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Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.
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A change came o'er my Vision - it was night: We clove a pathway through a frantic throng: The steeds, wild-plunging, filled us with affright: The chariots whirled along.Within a marble hall a river ran - A living tide, half muslin and half cloth: And here one mourned a broken wreath or fan, Yet swallowed down her wrath
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I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.
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Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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The shedding of any clothes, when you're 70 years old, is tricky.
