Jonah Hill (Jonah Hill Feldstein) Quotes

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

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• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Children
  • Family
  • Free

• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
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  • Personality
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• TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Art
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• Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

  

  Warren Beatty
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• The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.

  

  Aaron Neville
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  • Attention
  • Teachers

• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Life
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  • Live

• As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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• Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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• The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.

  

  Parker Young
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• I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Words
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• Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
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• Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• I don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Instead of a government with steel in its backbone, we've got one with Steel in its pocket.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• It might be rare, but there are certain moments when you really don't feel like yourself. When you are in the character so fully, it's the best feeling ever. I so love it. Even if those moments come just once a day or every other day, they are just worth it.

  

  Lily-Rose Depp
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• If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.

  

  John Travolta
  • Ifs
  • Macho
  • Androgynous

• I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

  

  Vernon Wells
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• I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

  

  Jonah Hill
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