Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.

Tommy Lee Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.

Jesmyn Ward

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You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one else can see them.

Matt Haig

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I do worry about a world in which the rich get to write the rules.

Angus Deaton

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Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.

Michael Foreman

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I don't agree with those who demonize or vilify the FBI.

Michael Cohen

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I believe having judges with real world, frontline experience as a prosecutor is a good thing.

Amy Klobuchar

GoodExperienceWorldBelieveJudges

I don't really watch TV. I've got the box set of 'Downton Abbey,' which I'm enjoying.

Sidse Babett Knudsen

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I think artists are interested in what people think of them.

Logic

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When we were kids, we couldn't wait to have our own rooms, not to have to share anymore. And that is what I love about having my own bedroom. It is mine. My sleep is mine. Both pillows are mine. If I wake up, it is me who has woken me up... It makes me feel like a grown-up. I love it.

Lisa Jewell

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I know prisons from the inside.

Jose Mujica

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I think I've just been able to stay balanced, and my family has helped me through that. And with that, I just can continue to develop because I work hard every day.

Christian Pulisic

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