Jon Jones Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
-
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
-
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
-
My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
-
I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
-
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
-
Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
-
You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
-
Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
-
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
-
I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
-
She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
-
Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
-
It takes one person to give you a big chance.
-
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
-
It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
-
People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
-
The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
-
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
-
'What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.'
-
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
-
Eventually, I gave up my sublet in Berlin and stayed in England for a long time - for about 20 years.
-
I've never had a roommate, even when I was growing up.
-
Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.
