Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
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We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.
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We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.
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Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.
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There's no point in asking focus groups. I go down the pub and hear about it there.
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I don't know what it was like in the '80s. I don't really even know what it was like in the '90s, because I was broke and wasn't selling any art. I was in a few group shows, but I didn't have a gallery until 2006.
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Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
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I don't know if any specific religion is the one to subscribe to. I'm not saying, one way or the other. I don't want to get involved in that. But, I think having faith in this experience we are having as a group of people on Earth helps a lot.
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In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience.
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This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.
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We are very concerned about this particular individual because he is driving a car that resemble a legitimate police vehicle. He's using police-type lights. He has a police-type uniform, a police-type hat. This individual means to do what he's doing and he's dangerous.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.
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The worst thing about being strong is no one recognizes the beauty in strength or the love behind it.
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Whatever the attitude, so is the response.
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This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
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I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.
