Jon Heder Quotes
I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.
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I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.
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The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is a sort of nightmare. It is a sort of nightmare, and I'm trying to wake up from it. And as any nightmare, it's full of much that is unspeakable.
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I'm a laid-back guy, but my brain is always wrapped up in music.
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The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen, what they are looking for. What are they trying to do? Sometimes what they do is heroic or comes with a price or sacrifice or maybe the way they do things isn't so great and that's when they become anti-heroes. But the journey of an anti-hero combined with a good story done well is always worthwhile.
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I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.
