Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

I don't direct movies for a living.

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• I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • College
  • Proud

• I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.

  

  Doris Day
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Animal

• I have to photograph where I am.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photograph

• Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Evil
  • Expected
  • Predictable

• You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

  

  Kevin James
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Ends

• Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Stills
  • Remakes
  • '80s

• The results of our investigation indicated a poor command climate.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Result
  • Climate
  • Command

• Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Falsities

• I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Picture
  • Perspective

• I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • World
  • Long
  • Kids

• I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Blood
  • Cruelty
  • Optimist

• Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Snow
  • Los Angeles
  • Closets

• The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought, he would at least do his best to, even though he suspected that his child's words and child's deeds didn't make much difference. It had stood there before he was born, and would be standing there after he was dead, but perhaps, even so, it was pleased that he stroked its bark every time he passed, and sometimes, when he was sure he wasn't observed, even pressed his cheek against it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Words

• There's a vacancy, won't you come to me And fill my empty spaces I'm a motel man in a promised land That's filled with empty faces So won't you bring your sorrows bring your dreams, It's a place for you to be There's no more tomorrow or that's how it seems Won't you come to me? I've got a vacancy...

  

  Harry Chapin
  • Dreams
  • Vacancy

• I don't direct movies for a living.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Direct