Jon Bon Jovi Quotes
I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
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I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
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The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.
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It is possible to change, it is possible to leave weakness behind.
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It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate. It's because our system is set up to block tax reform.
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I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.
