Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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If America is about anything, she is about freedom. We have seen in the burgeoning Department of Homeland Security and at our airports and in the color-coded alerts the beginning of the erosion of that freedom.
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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
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I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.
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The Mindscape of Alan Moore 56m10s
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Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
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I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.
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If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.
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I had an audition for Mary Jane Watson in 'Spiderman' and ended up playing Betty Brant in that series. I auditioned for Amy Adams' role in 'Catch Me If You Can' and, you know, ended up playing the bank teller. So there were a lot of times early on where I felt like I was always sort of the bridesmaid, never the bride - never quite right.
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I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.
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I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing.
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I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.
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I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.
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In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.
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We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.
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Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?
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I look upon pride as a sin.
