Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.
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We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.
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The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots
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Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult. And yet, examining the first couple's relationship - their negotiations of public and private life, of conflicts and compromises - offers hints about Barack Obama the president, not just Barack Obama the husband.
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I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I've built an incredible company. I went to a great school. I came out - I built an incredible company. I wrote the number one selling business book of all time: 'Trump: The Art of the Deal.'
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I'm quite happy having stuff like quinoa, sushi, and even vegetable juices.
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Open afresh your round of starry folds,Ye ardent marigolds!
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Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.
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The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.
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As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
