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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The worst leaders are the once that think they have to know as much or more than the people who work with them. The best leaders are the once who know that their employees know hell of a lot more than what they know and willing to admit it whilst expressing the value of their employees.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
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When we put country first, it's amazing that we're going to be able to bring people together instead of dividing America.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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There's a nostalgic aspect to the 'Iron Man' franchise for me.
