Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.

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• Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Men
  • Action
  • Move

• I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Play
  • Boring
  • Reaction

• I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'

  

  Lara Stone
  • Up
  • Love
  • Parents

• To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Great
  • Job

• I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.

  

  Washed Out
  • Everything
  • Computer
  • Hiding

• Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

  

  Ted Bell
  • Book
  • Me
  • Year

• There are a thousand ways to play any role.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Play
  • Ways
  • Thousand

• I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Believe
  • Amazing
  • Looking Forward

• I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Money
  • Why

• There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• My music lives because of real players.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Real
  • Players

• Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Important
  • Me
  • Preservation

• What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Heart

• It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Home

• One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.'

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Song
  • Graduation

• My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • She
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

  

  Jamie Farr
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Nice

• I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Words

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.

  

  Ira Glass
  • World
  • Good
  • Character

• America is the greatest country in the whole world.

  

  Chris Rock
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Drinking

• The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • World
  • Mind
  • Poet

• Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • World
  • Sometimes
  • Mistakes