Jeremy Renner Quotes
What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
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By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.
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What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.
