Jon Bon Jovi Quotes
New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can't be scared.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.
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All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.
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New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.
