Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

I was born in a neighborhood called the Third Ward.

In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.

How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.

There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.

I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.

I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.

Basically, it's somebody who got stuck having to interview me who really wants to be a novelist, so they're writing these novellas and I was like, "It's not true, that didn't happen, they just made all that up! Why don't they just go ahead and be a novelist instead of bothering with interviewing me?"

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

There's people in hell who want ice water.

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.

You need me? You yell. You want to leave? We go. I'll get you out of here, no matter what.

We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way.

If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

If you want to put somebody down, analogize them to the n - - .

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be.