Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
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I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
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I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
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There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
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Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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I put Compton on the map.
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I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
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Give them a conscious understanding of how powerful and important and valuable and perfect they are.
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I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.
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I think that I'm shy and I judge myself. But at the same time, I also have big contradictions. I can be sometimes sure of myself as well. I'm not always fragile and vulnerable. I can feel tough and strong.
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In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.
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I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.
