Jon Voight Quotes

I was raised Catholic... I fell in love with certain ideals.

Jon Voight

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• I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • American
  • Democracy
  • Chain

• People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Progress

• When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Hope
  • Free

• Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Deep
  • Queen
  • Purple

• Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Evil
  • Politics
  • Annoyance

• There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Best

• I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Think
  • Hurt
  • Humor

• I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Present
  • Musicians
  • Limits

• Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • Working
  • Invest

• I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Money
  • Opportunity
  • Car

• You can't hit what you can't see.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • You
  • See
  • Hit

• Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • Different
  • Way

• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Brain

• I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • House
  • Party
  • Three

• War is the business of barbarians.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Business
  • War
  • Barbarians

• Trees are your best antiques.

  

  Alexander Smith

• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Like
  • Scene
  • Theater

• My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Romantic
  • Shines

• For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Together

• I was raised Catholic... I fell in love with certain ideals.

  

  Jon Voight
  • Catholic