Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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Naked dudes are inherently funny.
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I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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If I can utilise anything, I'll utilise it.
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No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
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Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
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There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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If you're concentrating so damn hard on a piece of mathematics or a musical - a piece of music or a piece of art, the restraint that holds the rest of - the rest of the world back off and vanishes in the rest of your life.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life.
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Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.
