Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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I am sorry that my convictions do not allow me to repeat my friend’s offer, said one of the others. But I have had to abandon the humanitarian and egalitarian fancies. His name was Mr. Neo-Classical.
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Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
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'The Offending Words and Images, in their natural and ordinary meaning, mean and were understood to mean that I, as the Prime Minister of Singapore and Chairman of GIC, am guilty of criminal misappropriation of the monies paid by Singaporeans to the CPF.'
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It's awesome to have friends among the country music community that you know are looking out for you and that you are excited to get to see on the road.
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The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.
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Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!
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I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.
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I was bar mitzvahed at Beth Shalom, and I had trouble. I didn't quite get it all.
