Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I think I first encountered Ebola from the movie 'Outbreak.' Then there was the book 'The Hot Zone.' It's the type of thing you either read and say, 'Oh wow, that's terrifying,' or you read it and say, 'Oh wow, I want to do that.' I read it and said, 'Oh wow, I want do that.'
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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All three of us just had our eye on what was happening around us, we were very observant to what people were doing in love situations, and what was happening in the world.
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When all else fails...be a rockstar
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The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled matter-something vital that we cannot build out of these parts. There is surely something else, some piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and that owes no homage to the sun.
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And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.
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In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
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There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.
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I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.
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Life is too short to be miserable.
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Remember when I tried, I never strayed to far from you. Forever by your side, no matter what I was going through. But now I, never know, the things to say to you.
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My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade away for my eyes restores me as a complete image for the unreal eye to which I deny all images. A complete image with reference to a world devoid of image which imagines me in the absence of any imaginable figure. The being of a nonbeing of which I am the infinitely small negation which it instigates as its profound harmony. In the night shall I become the universe?
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All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.
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You're so privileged to be there, you feel like you have to complain about something just so you don't have to think about how lucky you are. It's kind of over compensation, I think, when I'm feeling generous about it. Or, when I'm not, I think maybe it's just the basic requirement of being a teenager, feeling like you have to be perfect every time, and when you have an algebra test or a hangnail, the rest of the war-torn, poverty-stricken, deformed world ought to turn its attention to you.
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Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow
