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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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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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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My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life. One sign that you're awakened is that you don't give a damn about what's going to happen in the next life. You're not bothered about it; you don't care. You are not interested, period.
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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'm trying to make music that I like, and I love hip-hop. At the same time, I love guitar. I love rock and everything.
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I see what's behind everything the director wants to do.
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We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.
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I look upon pride as a sin.
