Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.
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I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them.
