Jon Jones Quotes
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.
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Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.
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One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life's losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.
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In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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Fighting was something inside of me that I didn't realize was there.
