Jon Jones Quotes
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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Vegetarian and frugal it may be, but the chickpea is one of the most versatile ingredients you could keep in your cupboards.
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My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
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I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.
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I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.
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I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.
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I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.
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One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.
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But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
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It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.
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When we need somebody haunted we investigate … When we investigate we do so noisily always.
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I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'
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And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
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School was a big source of anxiety for me. I hated school. I have social anxiety, and it developed when I was a kid. I had trouble going to birthday parties. It was always there. I begged my mom to let me be home-schooled at one point for a semester because I was so miserable at school.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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Glover Teixeira is a phenomenal opponent.
