Jon Jones Quotes
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Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
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Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
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That Monday after we lost to Washington, that's when everything hit the fan. But instead of succumbing to the environment at that particular time, it was more or less, 'What are we going to do to make this thing turn around?' We decided we had a lot more football to play, and what a story it would be if we turned it around and made the playoffs. And we did just that.
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Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
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We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell.
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Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.
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Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their own, nor can they vindicate equal-protection rights of their citizens. The same is true about being able to challenge alleged religious discrimination. This limitation on the states' authority to champion such claims is fundamental to our separation-of-powers architecture.
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A champion without his belt is like a knight without his sword. I've got to have it.
