Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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I've never tried to be something I'm not.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.
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I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.
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The knowledge of reality, achieved by means of the complete sensory equipment, must be expressed artistically in terms of a medium which appeals to the memory of all sensory experience - but only through the eye.
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When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.
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I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.
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Mentorship is an incredibly huge responsibility. And you need to choose your mentors carefully, just like mentors choose their apprentices carefully. There has to be trust there, on a very deep level.
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People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
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I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black – with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing – and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.
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People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man
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People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the biggest misconception is, when you think about me, when you think about my name, I don't want you to think about design or clothes or music. I want you to think about a person that's just trying to help people.
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If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
