Jon Voight Quotes

I just think that I'm a person who's trying to find the truth and express it as I, you know, get the opportunity.

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• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • American
  • Play
  • Band

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Country
  • May
  • Heaven

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Great
  • You
  • Depression

• Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Look

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Doing

• Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Change
  • Being

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Control

• I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Love

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Mind
  • Tired

• When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Talk

• I think Republicans are going to do better than Hillary Clinton any time of the day.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Time

• I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.

  

  Nellie Bly
  • Friends
  • Lawyer

• The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Character
  • Career

• So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Trying
  • Chaotic

• Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • World
  • Effect
  • Buddhism

• I just think that I'm a person who's trying to find the truth and express it as I, you know, get the opportunity.

  

  Jon Voight
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Opportunity