Jon Heder Quotes

I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.

Jon Heder

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• It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Night
  • Day
  • Sleep

• The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Story
  • First
  • Old

• My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Life
  • Person
  • Educated

• Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Real
  • Play
  • Real estate

• Men lie all the time.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Time
  • Men
  • Lie

• I don't think anyone would say that the women on the United States national team are not great role models and ambassadors. Everywhere we go, we connect with fans, sign autographs, and represent our sport and federation with class.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Great
  • Women
  • Team

• Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May

• A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Political

• One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Simple
  • Bird
  • Achievement

• I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

  

  Patti Smith

• I always run without music. Being disconnected is what I'm addicted to more than anything. There aren't many places where you can be without your phone and computer. I've started to crave and enjoy that time alone.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Time
  • Music
  • Alone

• I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

  

  Charles Grodin
  • People

• Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.

  

  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III

• I'm on Twitter. I love Twitter because I'm kind of voyeuristic. I don't tweet, but I look at other people's.

  

  Max Minghella
  • People

• The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.

  

  Bob Ainsworth
  • Important
  • Country
  • War

• It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Long
  • Control

• Its appearance is constantly changing. It might sound strange to say this of an inanimate building, but every time you see the Taj, it looks different. The color of its white marble changes throughout the day, from the waxy yellow at dawn through to the pastel blue-gray of a full moon.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Different
  • Color

• All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

  

  Demosthenes
  • Action

• Ce qu'il y a d'enivrant dans le mauvais goût, c'est le plaisir aristocratique de déplaire.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

• I had such a good time doing that movie [Sister Act 2]. My daughter's in that movie. It was a fun film to do. And it shocked a lot of people, because they loved it, and they take it with them.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • People
  • Fun

• It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

  

  Alexander Herzen
  • Napoleon

• I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.

  

  Jon Heder
  • Napoleon