Jon Voight Quotes
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.
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My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
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The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
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In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
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I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.
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Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').
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For a building that is supposedly a symbol of love, it has generated a lot of anger. Or rather, some people have been angered by what others have said about it, and have felt called on to defend its honour.
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Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
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The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
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I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.
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For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.
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They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.
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I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.
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Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.
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But sometimes a giant heart can live in a tiny body.
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Being invisible would be pretty great. You could watch everybody, sneak into places and know what people were saying.
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I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint.
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I play a detective, very close to myself actually.
