Jon Lovitz Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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Every president, Democrat or Republican, every Congress, has gotten behind the idea that we have to invest in our highways, our bridges, our roads, our airports. The idea that now this is somehow a partisan issue, it boggles the mind.
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Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples.
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It's all about the sensuality of movement, every movement you make. That's why I love doing action movies. It's all about movement, dance - even if you're hitting someone in the face. You've got to sell it all with great passion. There's a narrative to the body. It's exactly the same as dance.
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I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
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It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.
