Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
Owning a bookstore was right up there with acting in life goals, but other than swaggering around the store, I'm not much use.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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I don't read books.
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There are no second acts in American lives.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
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I like to make things. It's been part of my identity since I was a kid.
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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
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All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
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What SAT tutoring does is it invisibly alters the admissions pool so a school could try to be as egalitarian as they can, but if a student is SAT-tutored, and their score goes up 200 points in a year, and the college admissions committee has no idea that the student got tutored, all of a sudden it's shifting the pool back toward old money.
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Owning a bookstore was right up there with acting in life goals, but other than swaggering around the store, I'm not much use.
