Jon Bon Jovi Quotes
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
Quotes to Explore
-
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
-
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
-
Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
-
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
-
If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
-
I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
-
I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
-
I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
-
There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
-
When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
-
I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
-
Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
-
The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
-
I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
-
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
-
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
-
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
-
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
-
We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
-
Bands are like relationships, you know. You are kind of in a relationship with a bunch of people at one time, but this feels like a relationship that is actually working.
-
I like working with modern sounds in the studio as much as I'm happy to work with a basic rock n' roll format.
-
Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote a lot of stuff for Phil Spector... we had done all rock and roll and rhythm and blues. I mean, we liked ballads and I suppose we did them OK, but that wasn't where we were emotionally and musically coming from.
-
Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.
-
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
