Timothy Bottoms Quotes

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

Timothy Bottoms

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• I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
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• Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Science
  • Freedom
  • Progress

• I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Good
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• A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Writing
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• I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Military
  • Chinese
  • Year

• I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.

  

  Antonio Banderas

• A good deed hidden in silence dies.

  

  Pindar
  • Good
  • Silence

• I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Desire
  • Imagination
  • Feel

• Shane padded back to the couch and flopped, sucking on his own can of soda. Eve shot him an exasperated look. “Yeah, man, thanks for bringing me one, too.” The raccoon eye make-up exaggerated her eye roll. “Dork.” “Didn’t know if you wanted zombie dirt sprinkled on it or anything. If you’re eating this week.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Done
  • Expectation
  • Uninteresting

• The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  

  Andy Rooney
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  • Dog
  • Nicer

• It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy and I'm not going to continue to do that kind of movie.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Movie
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• While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation. Justice is not a gift; it’s a lifestyle, a commitment to the Jewish concept of tikkun olam—‘repairing the world.’

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • World
  • Giving
  • Single

• What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Great

• Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Growing
  • Years

• Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
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• We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.

  

  John Bevere
  • Mind
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  • Given

• I think, politically, for the House Democrats, we face that same danger here, whether currently indictable or not, it is clear that the President has, at a minimum, engaged in highly unethical and unscrupulous behavior which does not bring honor to the office he holds.

  

  Steve Lynch Autograph
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• In more recent testimony he added, “The president has in fact exceeded his authority in a way that is creating a destabilizing influence in a three-branch system.

  

  Andrew C. McCarthy
  • President
  • Authority
  • System

• I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I don't know. It depends. I don't think the woods are full of candidates today.

  

  Ella T. Grasso
  • Woman
  • President
  • Candidates

• I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

  

  Timothy Bottoms
  • President
  • Given
  • Performances