Jonny Weston Quotes

I wanted to be a tough kid, so I thought, 'I'm going to move to New York, and I'm going to be a thug when I come out of there.'

Jonny Weston

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• The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Best
  • New
  • New York

• Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Water
  • Never
  • Baby

• I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Woman
  • Skyscraper

• The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • House
  • Three
  • Independence

• Thug: This is a stickup! Now come on. Your money or your life.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Life
  • Money
  • Thug

• Vladimir Putin is a thug and a killer who in the grand tradition of Russian autocracy has no intention ever of holding free elections.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Free
  • Thug

• Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Character
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• I have no problem with them imitating me. It's a compliment. Everybody has to start out looking up to someone. For me it was James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Jackie Wilson, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Up

• 'Why?' Dallben interrupted. 'In some cases,' he said, 'we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Why
  • Question
  • Learning

• The general manager is kind of like the step into darkness when you reach the top of the league. As GM, you're responsible for everything, including the maitre d's and the sommeliers - all these people who have their own agendas. But you probably make less than the maitre d' and have a lot more work and a lot more headaches.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • People
  • Work

• The two lines from 'Roots' that stick out to me are, 'You no more in Africa. You in America now,' and what I said after Kunta escaped: 'What is it like to be free, Kunta? It must be something.'

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • America
  • Free

• Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • World
  • Knowledge

• I related to 'A Clockwork Orange' in a personal way. I was a bit of a thug growing up. It's taken some reform for me. Thank God for artistry and creativity as an outlet.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Up
  • God
  • Growing

• 'Sophie's Choice' is actually the reason I became an actress.

  

  Kathryn Morris

• I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

  

  Eric Dickerson
  • Parents
  • Proud

• I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• If you are black on television, you are probably going to be some kind of thug, gangster, or portrayed in a negative light. If you are some type of Muslim, you are going to be blowing stuff up. If you are Hispanic, you are going to be some type of gangbanger. I've felt like this for years.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Up
  • Black
  • Light

• I'm black, so I should be able to play a 'thug?' No. Hello. Open your mind. I'm a person that believes in breaking barriers.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Thug

• Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Hope

• Everybody who knows us knows we always have a good time.

  

  Maurice Gibb Bee Gees
  • Time
  • Good

• What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing to give up whatever they may have come with. So it's still quite a stretch for African Americans, yeah.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Style
  • Worship
  • Give Up

• I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Like

• When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can believe it if they try! I mean, science fiction requires a suspension of disbelief, but people allow themselves to sit back and enjoy it anyway.

  

  Jean Louisa Kelly
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• I wanted to be a tough kid, so I thought, 'I'm going to move to New York, and I'm going to be a thug when I come out of there.'

  

  Jonny Weston
  • Thug