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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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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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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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
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The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.
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How mad would it actually be to do an 'Avatar' type animation film, but about something mundane like a Winn-Dixie cashier's day at work? That'd be something else, I think.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.
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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.
