Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.
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Nature knows best.
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By a route obscure and lonely,Haunted by ill angels only,Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule - From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,Out of SPACE - out of TIME.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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It seemed that she had not so much misjudged the woman as assigned her to completely the wrong species.
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You can't run your career on the basis of what someone else does.
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Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.
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I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.
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Those who act receive the prizes.
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I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.
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The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.
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I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.
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I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.
