Jon Voight Quotes
Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.
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I've never really seen myself as an actress. I told myself, 'I'm not going to get a job where I need to put on makeup, or one that I need to do my nails.' I hate the idea of putting on makeup, then removing it.”
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I'm shy by nature and don't like talking about myself, and would let my films do the talking.
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For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious. That's why SpaceShipTwo is much bigger than SpaceShipOne: It needs to be because you want those six people to be floating around and enjoying themselves.
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Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.
