Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

It's no mean calling to bring fun into the afternoons of large numbers of people. That, too, is part of my job, and I'm happy to serve when called on.

Tommy Lee Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 15, 1946

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You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.

Joanna Lumley

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The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

Johannes Stark

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I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.

Ana Ivanovic

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Me and my mate used to go across the park, jump on the Met line to get the Tube into Harrow. There was a sports shop we always used to go into, and there was a McDonald's. We used to go off with three or four quid in our pocket. That would cover our train fare, mooching around Harrow, and going to McDonald's.

Steve Easterbrook

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The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

Robert Dallek

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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

Robin Morgan

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I can stitch a song together in about an hour anytime you want, but it won't have the depth.

Rodney Crowell

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Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

Ron Chernow

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I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.

Logic

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You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.

Dirk Kempthorne

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My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

Christina Ricci

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