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'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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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'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
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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 believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.
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Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.
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Kid, nobody really gets anywhere in this life. Everybody just picks someplace to hunker down and barricade themselves in. Some of us just got better bricks than others.
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Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
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Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.
