Jim Webb Quotes
I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed.
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The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.
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I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.
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Stepping into the "shoes" of someone's life other than my own, great movies such as 'Cinema Paradiso,' scenic landscapes, the work of Daniel Day-Lewis, the books of Joel Goldsmith, traveling, doughnuts, ice cream.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.
