Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.

Tommy Lee Jones

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• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Big

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • World
  • Control
  • Decision

• I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Like
  • Better
  • Wine

• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Light
  • Purpose
  • Darkness

• If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Know
  • Better
  • Judge

• When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Energy
  • First
  • Natural

• Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Risk
  • Cancer

• I've gotten used to using individual lashes as well. A lot of girls will use strip eyelashes, but the glue comes out of each side and it gets messy. Individual lashes make your eyes look bigger and much more natural.

  

  Katherine Webb
  • Eyes

• I was always curious. I wanted to learn a little about a lot of things, and I really had to get pushed to achieve.

  

  David Robinson The Cars

• Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Time

• I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it's still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general.

  

  Jason Mitchell
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• One of the great joys of my life post-'Friends' has been being approached by Asian women who have told me how much it meant to see an Asian face on their TV screen when they were growing up.

  

  Lauren Tom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Once we begin to make our churches safety zones in a military-style approach, we're going to lose something of the character of our places of worship.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Character
  • Style
  • Military

• There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

  

  James Dyson
  • Time

• When I travel the country, I am often struck by how much we actually have in common. It's much more powerful than how much there is that's reported that divides us.

  

  David Muir
  • Country
  • Powerful
  • Travel

• I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • American
  • House

• A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • People
  • Great
  • Mistake

• Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things.

  

  Martine Syms
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Study

• Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Light

• The director can't do your job for you. He can't get in front of the camera and perform your part.

  

  Everett McGill
  • Job
  • Director
  • Camera

• What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones