Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have to photograph where I am.
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Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.
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You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
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Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes.
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The results of our investigation indicated a poor command climate.
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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
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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.
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I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world.
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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.
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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.
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There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.
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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
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I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.
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We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.
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I don't direct movies for a living.
