Jon Foreman (Jonathan Mark Foreman) Quotes
Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.
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Yoga teaches the immutable law of Karma. Karma says we are the architects of our happiness and our misery. We can hope for new outcomes from old behaviors, or realize that only new behaviors will change our circumstances. It’s our choice. We can continue to suffer, or we can take responsibility for our lives. We can live in our illusions, feeling frustrated and victimized, or we can surrender our egos and see the bigger picture. This means we learn to listen to our hearts, reclaim our power, step up, and take skillful action.
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Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.
