Jon Jones Quotes
I've come to expect more out of myself - as a citizen, as a man, as an athlete - to reach a better place, a place I've never been.
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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
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Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
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Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
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You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.
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I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.
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Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
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About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.
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Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead.
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Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize the answer, and you can't attach the one thing to some other things. It's just the one thing.
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Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.
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I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.
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From this inhuman pressure doping is born because the athlete feels the imperative of having to be No. 1. I believe instead that sport should be a private pressure, a challenge for yourself.
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I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.
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I've come to expect more out of myself - as a citizen, as a man, as an athlete - to reach a better place, a place I've never been.
