Jon Jones Quotes
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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Ninety percent of my mentors have been male, most of them with very little in common with me on a personal level - from life experience, work experience, backgrounds, etc.
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When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.
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Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
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When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted diseases, national frontiers are simple irrelevant. Toxins don't stop for customs inspections and microbes don't carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods.
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Fitness really changed my life.
