Jon Voight Quotes
The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
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I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat.
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(On his Catholic faith): 'Certainly it has been the rock on which I have always been able to rely in good times and in bad, and it is the lodestone of my life.'
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I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
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To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
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I can only approach things indirectly, or I can't approach them at all.
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The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.
