Jon Jones Quotes
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.
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As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.
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I believe I have the attitude of a champion and a winner, and I'm not apologetic for it.
