Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

Tommy Lee Jones

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• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Good
  • Business
  • Together

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Work
  • God
  • Light

• After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Relationship
  • Question
  • Media

• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Great
  • You
  • Acting

• It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Want
  • Easy

• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Water
  • Monster
  • Glass

• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Light

• Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Place

• When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Character
  • Future
  • Past

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Age

• I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Fashion
  • Always
  • Same

• Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Great
  • American

• I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• There should be a place and the space for all pop.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Space
  • Should
  • Place

• It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• You can love me or you can hate me.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • Hate

• I am an enthusiastic European, and my first-hand experience of war and hatred has strengthened that conviction. I have seen how misguided unilateral nationalistic identities have brought destruction and death. I am, however, a world citizen, too.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • World
  • Experience
  • War

• I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

  

  Debra Messing
  • World
  • Friends
  • Gay

• I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Citizen
  • Greece

• In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • World
  • Political
  • Position