Jeremy Renner Quotes

I want to be a good human being.

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Old

• Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Water
  • Powerful
  • Ocean

• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Movie

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Rock
  • Players
  • Jazz

• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Think
  • Society
  • Change

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Connection
  • Hide

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Time
  • Think
  • Acting

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • Reached
  • Puberty

• To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

  

  T.I.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Way

• In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Good
  • Power
  • Culture

• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • People
  • Music
  • Friendship

• It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Achieve

• My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Life
  • Work
  • Friends

• Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Understanding
  • Preparation
  • Journalism

• I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

  

  T-Pain
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Name

• I was a handyman in an office building across from Penn Station for two entire summers while I was still in school and the summer after. I had to wear a big, gray jumpsuit kind of thing that had the name of the company in a big patch on my chest, and I was sent to fix things and didn't know what I was doing.

  

  Max von Essen
  • School
  • Summer

• I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• When I have a good pair of shoes, I wear them over and over. Whether it's nice sneakers or a cool pair of combat boots, splurge on a pair you love that you can wear over and over with totally different outfits.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Good
  • Different
  • Nice

• South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived in Kenya in Nairobi where my brother was actually born, and my sister was born in Capetown. I spent the first 10 years of my life in South Africa.

  

  Jann Klose
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• I want to be a good human being.

  

  Jeremy Renner
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