Jon Bon Jovi Quotes
I believe that we're only as strong as our neighbor is, and the idea that, I'm my brother's keeper works for me.
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I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.
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It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
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Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
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The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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I want to behave more like a boy... I want to be the strong one.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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I really believe in the power of music.
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My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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I do try to live a normal life.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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I believe that we're only as strong as our neighbor is, and the idea that, I'm my brother's keeper works for me.
