Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
I am a huge believer - I always have been - in the power of comedy. That comedy will break hatred and will bring understanding.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
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I was terribly shy, but I was always in harmony when I was dancing.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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One of the things I love about the character development in 'Power' is Courtney A. Kemp's subversive use of stereotype.
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Saying gay people shouldn't be the punchline is basically saying don't make people the punch line, which I think is ridiculous. The whole point of comedy is, on some level, to make fun of ourselves and put everything into an absurdist context.
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Asperger's doesn't define me. It's a condition that I have to live with and work through, but I feel more relaxed about myself. People will have a greater understanding of who I am and why I do the things I do.
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I am a huge believer - I always have been - in the power of comedy. That comedy will break hatred and will bring understanding.
