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 always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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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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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process.
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It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.
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I have an appreciation for strong women.
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I come from a very, very small town. There were no other actors around. I never met any actors. A lot of those times when I'd be out in the sheds with my dad, I'd step outside, and there's just nothing out there but thousands of acres, forty thousand sheep, and miles of nothing. And so my mind would just wonder about what else was out there.
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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.
