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 most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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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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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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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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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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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 made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
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I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about.
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My scope on what's good is if I like it. The first person I have to please is myself.
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And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.
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For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.
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Muhammad Ali was such an original - his antics, his character, his charisma, his strength, his individuality.
