Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
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The nearer you come to God, the less you are disposed to questioning and reasoning. When you actually attain Him, when you behold Him as the reality, then all noise, all disputations, come to an end.
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I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.
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Tarzan of the Apes knew that they had found the body of his victim, but that interested him far less than the fact that no one remained in the village to prevent his taking a supply of the arrows which lay below him.
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There are many creeds but only one faith. Creeds may change, develop, and grow flat, while the substance of faith remains the same in all ages. The overgrowth of creed may bring about the disintegration of that substance. The proper relation is a minimum of creed and a maximum of faith.
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You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.
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I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.
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My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.
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I guess I was very fortunate; I had a very very, lets put it this way, I had very wonderful upbringing and a childhood where my parents, of course, exposed us to many cultural aspects, not only of India but other parts of the world.
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I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.
