Jon Bon Jovi Quotes

I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.

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• I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Up
  • Real
  • School

• For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

  

  Randy West
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
  • Audience

• I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Wisdom
  • Gay

• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Real
  • Rich
  • Poor

• If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Life
  • Real
  • Feedback

• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Human
  • Human being
  • Him

• What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Star
  • Really
  • Prince

• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Life
  • Soccer

• It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Family
  • Enjoy

• On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Fear

• You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Science

• The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • World
  • Writing
  • Working

• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Different
  • School
  • Together

• Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

  

  George Ayittey
  • Time
  • Period
  • Leadership

• I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Different
  • Children
  • Sorry

• People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly challenge and say, 'This is mine, you're not doing that with it.'

  

  Charles Leadbeater
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Deceit
  • Web
  • Dishonest

• I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Sorry
  • Laughing
  • Blame