Jon Jones Quotes
I was never popular. I always kind of wanted to be accepted with the rich kids, with the cool kids, and I never had that.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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Emerson recommended us to treat people as though they were real, and added, "Perhaps they are.”
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
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Every kid wants to give their family a better life.
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I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way. I am so desperately worried about anybody saying, "She cut in line," or "She took our table," or "She doesn't do her own grocery shopping." It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.
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I was never popular. I always kind of wanted to be accepted with the rich kids, with the cool kids, and I never had that.
