Jon Favreau Quotes

I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.

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• Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Spiritual

• An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Powerful
  • Fight
  • Alliance

• You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • World
  • You
  • Economy

• What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Hope
  • Know
  • Ought

• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • School
  • America

• I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Job
  • Success

• Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Without
  • Cake

• I hate the domestic life.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Domestic

• An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Size
  • January
  • Immigrant

• Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Amazing
  • Dating
  • Skills

• I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Record
  • Very
  • Catchy

• They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • History
  • Death
  • Fear

• All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Words
  • inspirational

• I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Love
  • Today

• Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • God
  • Business
  • Attention

• Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

  

  Carly Simon

• Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.

  

  Joe Shuster
  • Up
  • Movie

• Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It's a part of maturing, I guess - just learning that it's not just always about a quick, easy fix of getting people to dance.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • People
  • Learning
  • Dance

• Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

  

  Lynn Abbey
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Balance

• My heroes, I couldn't imagine them practicing. Like Bob Dylan, you know? Bob Dylan's a very, very good guitar player, but it's like he's trying to hide it. I always loved this attitude. When you're very good... it's like being an athlete - and I always hated sports!

  

  Laurent Brancowitz Phoenix
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Player

• I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Movie