Jon Favreau Quotes
Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know, you don't really have a lot of control over things, so it's real hit or miss.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
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Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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My parents live in the part of the United States that is Canada. It is so far north that Minnesota lies in the same direction as Miami. They have four distinct seasons: Winter, More Winter, Still More Winter, and That One Day Of Summer.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
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At the age of 10, I had my first piece published in what was known as the 'Junior Post,' which was part of the 'Yorkshire Post,' and it was just for kids. I read it every week. And I got paid for it. So I thought... 'I can actually do this. I can get paid to write, and this is going to be fine.' I wrote several pieces for them.
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My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.
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Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.
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I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know, you don't really have a lot of control over things, so it's real hit or miss.
