Jon Jones Quotes

Conor McGregor has been a tremendous inspiration to me.

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Government

• I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Love
  • Dad

• Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Interest
  • Duty
  • Holy

• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Energy
  • Like

• I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

  

  Faith Hill
  • God
  • Kids
  • Me

• Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Working Hard

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • Day
  • Dying

• I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Thought
  • Surprised
  • Guess

• Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Personal
  • Big
  • Seriously

• My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Work
  • Experience
  • First

• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Never
  • Theory
  • Communist

• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Movie
  • Read
  • Maybe

• It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

  

  Edmund White
  • Real
  • Better
  • Successful

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Men
  • Said
  • Creepy

• The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Business
  • Phenomena
  • Argue

• I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Inspiration
  • Actor

• I love high concept movies, but they can only work if the source of inspiration is really human - if they're driven by pain and strong emotions. Once you connect the audience with that, then I swear you can take them on the craziest journey, and they'll come along.

  

  James Wan
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Journey

• There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Flight
  • Psychoanalysis

• Conor McGregor has been a tremendous inspiration to me.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Inspiration
  • Conor McGregor