Jon Favreau Quotes
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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In a progressively privatised city, the defence of public space, the production of new public space, and saving what is public really for the public is very important.
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New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
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I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
