Jon Bellion Quotes
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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I always work with 18 friends.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn.
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I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
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I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.
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Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
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Evolution and creationism both require faith.
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When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
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Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.
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A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.
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I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some names out or getting quoted out of context.
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The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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I loved everything, but it was Kanye West who really changed everything for me.
