Jon Jones Quotes
Muhammad Ali was such an original - his antics, his character, his charisma, his strength, his individuality.
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.
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But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.
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I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.
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Muhammad Ali was such an original - his antics, his character, his charisma, his strength, his individuality.
