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.
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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.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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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.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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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.
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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.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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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.
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I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.
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The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.
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I think being a young female star must be really, really pretty rough.
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I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.
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If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.
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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.
