Jon Jones Quotes

I notice that I'm full of myself, and I am arrogant to some degree, but it's honestly only when it comes to talking about MMA.

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• The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Know
  • Ignorance
  • Owe

• Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Animal
  • King
  • Once

• I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • People
  • Stand
  • View

• What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Winning

• People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • Change

• I've never liked rehearsing too much.

  

  J Mascis
  • Never
  • Too Much
  • Too

• Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • You
  • Sad
  • Clown

• I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
  • Like
  • Weather

• When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Like
  • Enough
  • Mature

• Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Science
  • Greatest

• I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Three

• In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Life
  • See

• There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Work
  • Art
  • Language

• For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Real
  • Money
  • Financial

• The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Help

• I know it's not the most important thing for me to win the most Grand Slams and be remembered in this world. I certainly don't have to win little tournaments here, there and everywhere, I don't have to win at all. Although I do want to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Important
  • Win

• Who was the role model, the living example of what the est Training could do? Who else but Werner Erhard, a man some of his employees say, thought of himself, as god.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • God
  • Training
  • Model

• In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

  

  Nicolas Jaar
  • Music
  • Electronic
  • Explaining

• I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Married
  • Three
  • Lady

• If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

  

  Craig Shirley
  • Past
  • Stop

• Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Writing

• The more you learn to love yourself, the better actor you will be. That's always going to be my training. Every part is, 'How can I learn to love myself more?'

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • Training

• I notice that I'm full of myself, and I am arrogant to some degree, but it's honestly only when it comes to talking about MMA.

  

  Jon Jones