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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Trust

• Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Great
  • Women
  • Man

• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• Leading from behind doesn't work.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Behind
  • Leading

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Character
  • Truth
  • True

• Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Good
  • God
  • Half

• Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Sharing

• 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.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Country
  • Care

• I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Behind
  • Reveal

• Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Follow

• 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.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Death

• Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots

  

  Allen Ginsberg

• 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.

  

  Jodi Kantor
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Alone

• 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.'

  

  Donald Trump
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I'm quite happy having stuff like quinoa, sushi, and even vegetable juices.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Happy

• Life's too short to just breeze on by.

  

  David Chang
  • Life

• People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

  

  Bong Joon-ho
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.

  

  Joel Parkinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
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