Jon Favreau Quotes
I've always been fascinated by chefs and the worlds of chefs - what they do is incredibly cinematic.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
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When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.
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If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
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John Clellon Holmes … and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said, 'You know, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said 'That's it, that's right!'
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The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called 'Once upon a time' in historicism's bordello.
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It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow. This gloom is the darkness of the sea.
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Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a shit bloody pulp with a high-heeled shoe stuffed up his mouth, sort of the pig with the apple; it would be good to put him on a serving plate but you'd need good silver.
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It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the 'dark horse' in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
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Forewarned is forearmed.
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There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
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Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it.
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When I wake up, I put on what I'm in the mood to wear.
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There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.
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I've always been fascinated by chefs and the worlds of chefs - what they do is incredibly cinematic.
