Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I don't like allegories.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
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I am attracted to characters who are in worlds where they don't belong and who have great ambitions that they imagine will somehow reconcile themselves with the world and make things right.
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My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life?
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People will become what you think of them. See them for their beauty and they will rise up. See them for their darkness, and they will fall.
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I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.
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Some people have a mandate that you can't change.
