Jon Favreau Quotes
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On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
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I have always focused on the bottom line.
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When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.
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I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.
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Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.
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My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.
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It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune. The Growleywogs knew that they were disliked and avoided by every one, so they had become surly and unsociable even among themselves.
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My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.
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The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
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I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.
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There's a nostalgic aspect to the 'Iron Man' franchise for me.
