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.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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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.
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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!
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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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.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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Acting is something that I really love when I am doing it, as it is interesting and fun to pretend to be someone else, but I don't ever miss it when I am not doing it.
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This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.
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Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.
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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.
