Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes
Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.
Quotes to Explore
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
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Today, you are hated throughout the world. If you don't know this, you should. The peoples burn your flag. The Islamic peoples all over the world chant: 'Death to America!'
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Whatever's good for the team. If that's what they want me to do, that's what I'll do. If they want me to be the PAT holder, I'll be the PAT holder. If they want me to return punts, I'll return punts.
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It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.
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Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings.
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I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.
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Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.
