You realize that you can't win 'em all. You try to win 'em all; you get frustrated, but you gotta have a short fuse either way. Success in the NFL is just as deadly as allowing yourself to kinda wallow in sorrow. It works both ways.
Jon Beason
Related Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. ... PETE ROSE You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right. CASEY STENGEL You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in ... GREG RUSEDSKI I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself. ACE FREHLEY One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find ... BENNY GOODMAN It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and l... HARRY CARAY It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got ... JOHN LYDON They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they ge... JOHN WILLIAM MCCORMACK You can't tell young people what to do. You can't tell 'em because they'll look at y... RONNIE JAMES DIO To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You... DIMEBAG DARRELL The prosecution has to go with the evidence and the facts and tell the story as it happened. The def... MARCIA CLARK If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. JESSE OWENS You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team yo... JIM PALMER You can't win if you don't play as a unit. KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to... KENNY ROGERS As I say, you get labelled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way y... JAMIE REDKNAPP Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down. JIMMY DURANTE You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You c... STEVEN ADLER You can't get tired in the studio. It's really tough. But you just gotta keep on going. POST MALONE Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' ... MERLE HAGGARD At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you c... KEVIN GARNETT Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattract... JOEL OSTEEN I strongly believe that you can't win in the marketplace unless you win first in the workplace. ... DOUGLAS CONANT I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to... KATARINA WITT It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irrespo... BILL O'REILLY It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irrespo... BILL O'REILLY I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around. CLINT BLACK I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television.... RUPERT MURDOCH Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's ... VINCE VAUGHN You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It'... TIGER WOODS We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it's really important ... KELLY ROWLAND If you're not in it you can't win it. DALEY THOMPSON I just want girls to realize, everybody's born a way for a reason, and you are who you are. You ... NIKKI BLONSKY It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the r... BARRY SANDERS You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's ... JERRY REINSDORF You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then... TERRY BRADSHAW Smoke 'em if you got 'em. TRE COOL You make 'em, I amuse 'em. DR. SEUSS It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to ... HENRY ROLLINS The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're thr... HAL ROACH As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, t... MOLLY IVINS I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product, and ... DAVID ANDERS There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, b... CHARLES DURNING They aren't all masterpieces but we found a way to win. It's nice that you can win and shoot 39 perc... LAWRENCE FRANK I'm a senior and I know how it is. When you win as much as we win, everybody either wants to beat yo... RASHAD ANDERSON You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out ... MALCOLM MCDOWELL When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as har... JULIAN FELLOWES If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time. ARTHUR BLANK I feel that sport tests every emotion. You have your highs, you have your lows, you win, you lose. Y... KIRSTIN PEAHL You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both. LIBERACE I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones. BILL PARCELLS You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care... FELIX DENNIS That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in r... KATE BUSH Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on ... ERIC BETZIG Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. Bu... BEAR GRYLLS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you... ROSALYNN CARTER There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fig... DANIEL CORMIER You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right. CASEY STENGEL Lifting weights is obviously important, because you want to be strong and fast and all of that, but ... MARK SANCHEZ Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where ... NATASHA LEGGERO In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one y... ERIC DICKERSON You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're ... RAND PAUL I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you... CAITLYN JENNER The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't ... JIMMY DOOLITTLE When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie H... ITZHAK PERLMAN You can either hope and pray you don't get picked on, or you can, in a way, almost make yourself... JAMES CORDEN That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I d... WARREN MOON You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, y... LIAM GALLAGHER When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and f... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular... HENRY JAMES When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough. RANDY JOHNSON You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. Yo... CHERYL LADD Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into pract... DAVID HOROWITZ I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vot... RUSH LIMBAUGH As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self... RAFAEL NADAL I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense. QUAVO You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't. OSCAR ISAAC You've got to come out and fire on all cylinders and get yourself up the leaderboard and show pe... JASON DAY You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself. RICKY NELSON We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you... KATHY ACKER It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. MICK JAGGER I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to... CARA CASTRONUOVA I think the frustration you can get into as a young artist is when you realize your limitations, but... JOSE JAMES You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or... PAT GILLICK I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don... LINDA RONSTADT You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you hav... STEVEN ADLER I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they shoul... YOUNG JEEZY As a storyteller, you have to have something to say. You have to look at the world, think about it i... JEFF NICHOLS One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some thin... JOHN BYTHEWAY It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've go... JOHNNY KNOXVILLE The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As s... ALYSSA MILANO One of my teachers once said that the way you know you're on the right path is that it works. No... JAMES REDFIELD Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You g... TYLER PERRY Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're o... GEORGE HARRISON
More Jon Beason
The kid is not cocky, but confident. Everybody around him knows this kid is going to be a superstar.... JON BEASON We have a couple bars in Nevada City that are more of a threat than that. NATE BEASON There are employers in this state who are more than willing to hire illegal aliens. Hiring illegal a... REP. SCOTT BEASON Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt... JON MEACHAM No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l... JON CORZINE If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you. JON HUERTAS More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch wit... JON STEWART President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much o... JON STEWART I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that ... JON STEWART If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news. JON STEWART Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid. JON STEWART If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime. JON STEWART I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. Y... JON STEWART I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else. JON STEWART Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center. JON STEWART McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done. JON STEWART Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you kn... JON STEWART The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart b... JON STEWART Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch. JON STEWART Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. JON STEWART The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. JON STEWART We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been loo... JON STEWART I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. JON STEWART You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to lo... JON STEWART If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they... JON STEWART Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is ... JON FAVREAU I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bo... JON FAVREAU 'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop an... JON PARDI I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort o... JON FAVREAU I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good. JON HEDER One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each sol... JON KYL I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that ... JON PARDI With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our... JON MEACHAM All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credi... JON TENNEY I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. JON LANDAU Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really... JON FAVREAU I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon ... JON TENNEY Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terr... JON MEACHAM There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision maki... JON VOIGHT When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing... JON FAVREAU Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursin... JON PORTER When Iron Man's flying, we'd send real planes up to do the choreography so that we'd get... JON FAVREAU A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not... JON MEACHAM People selling content internationally need to be highly focused on selling the right product to the... JON FELTHEIMER As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are abl... JON PORTER Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim o... JON KATZ When the Beatles wrote 'Paperback Writer,' it couldn't have been the same old thing. You... JON BATISTE I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said t... JON FISHMAN I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer. JON ENGLISH 'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is b... JON SCIESZKA 'The Royals' has emerged as a breakout series that has become one of E Network's highest... JON FELTHEIMER It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what... JON STEWART Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians ca... JON STEWART A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge... JON RONSON The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom. JON STEWART I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radic... JON KRAKAUER Happiness [is] only real when shared JON KRAKAUER It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong. JON KRAKAUER If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, b... JON STEWART I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in abo... JON STEWART You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back. JON ENGLISH Just every moment with Dick Cheney has been my favorite. Here's what I wonder about Dick Cheney, and... JON STEWART Yeah, that's the ticket. JON LOVITZ Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.' JON STEWART Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand g... JON STEWART We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the b... JON STEWART For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's inter... JON STEWART But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-b... JON STEWART Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunishe... JON STEWART I can't read lips unless they're touching mine. JON TROAST GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of th... JON STEWART You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were sw... JON STEWART James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many ro... JON LANDAU Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the... JON CORZINE Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana... JON STEWART Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instru... JON VOIGHT I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmente... JON ORINGER I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good ... JON MEACHAM Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and comple... JON MEACHAM Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to inter... JON KATZ One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply th... JON MEACHAM 'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff B... JON LANDAU I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a co... JON PARDI If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one&... JON MEACHAM I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, th... JON STEWART If I were in a situation where I had to meet a pack of wolves and my family is with me, I'm goin... JON SEDA I like San Francisco, but I don't think I'd want to work in Palo Alto. It seems like a prett... JON ORINGER When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or t... JON KRAKAUER With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperativ... JON PORTER Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. N... JON KATZ A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led... JON KATZ If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose... JON KATZ Some rescue groups are highly organized, experienced, well-funded, nearly professional. Others are s... JON KATZ It's easy to see why dog rescue is a mushrooming culture. Turning a troubled person's life a... JON KATZ Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especiall... JON KATZ Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. B... JON KATZ There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life a... JON KATZ When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writ... JON KATZ I'm one of those people who has always struggled with emotions and revealing them. When my dog O... JON KATZ Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals c... JON KATZ When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and pr... JON KATZ It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seei... JON KATZ A good breeder or experienced rescue agency wants you to prove that you'll be a capable caretake... JON KATZ Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and deci... JON KATZ When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live w... JON KATZ The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors... JON KATZ Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life... JON KATZ My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, s... JON KATZ There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do... JON KATZ I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing th... JON KATZ I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and t... JON KATZ It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting... JON KATZ Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if... JON STEWART The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience an... JON LESTER One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profit... JON LANDAU The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for th... JON ORINGER That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close ... JON HURWITZ Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought ab... JON PORTER There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how t... JON ORINGER Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Po... JON KATZ I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house... JON STEWART When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantl... JON TENNEY The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and s... JON LANDAU I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people. JON PARDI Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines,... JON SCIESZKA Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and e... JON MEACHAM Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the... JON SECADA I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once. JON PARDI First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic.... JON LOVITZ If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the e... JON MEACHAM Gallien cứ băn khoăn không hiểu liệu có phải anh đã nhặt ở cuối bang thứ bốn... JON KRAKAUER Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and ... JON TENNEY Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their... JON LANDAU It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els... JON LANDAU I held top-secret security clearance. JON OSSOFF I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ... JON BELLION I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the pa... JON OSSOFF It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha... JON MEACHAM I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, ... JON MEACHAM We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve... JON BATISTE It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ... JON MEACHAM If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for... JON FAVREAU We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings d... JON STEWART An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the reje... JON MEACHAM Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood... JON KYL I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay ... JON JOHANSEN I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w... JON ANDERSON Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. ... JON FOREMAN I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a ... JON RONSON The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells fo... JON RONSON I would say television is a focus, and expanding our channel platform is a focus. As for buying libr... JON FELTHEIMER I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in ... JON KRAKAUER Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did. JON LOVITZ The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all ... JON ORINGER There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. ... JON RONSON Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family... JON KATZ I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food. JON STEWART Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism. JON KRAKAUER For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, lik... JON FAVREAU The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriag... JON MEACHAM Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reaso... JON MEACHAM Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not cov... JON PORTER The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed wi... JON VOIGHT Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archety... JON FAVREAU To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remai... JON ORINGER If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack u... JON STEWART History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and... JON MEACHAM We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healt... JON CORZINE Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly ... JON MEACHAM Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are subs... JON LANDAU I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never hav... JON SCIESZKA There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people ... JON STEWART I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really hav... JON FAVREAU Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is be... JON LANDAU The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and n... JON PORTER I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle ... JON MEACHAM Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle betwe... JON STEWART I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instrumen... JON TESTER Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority i... JON ORINGER I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'S... JON FAVREAU One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wante... JON MEACHAM What's fun about chefs is that they're big guys, often, and they might not look like the mos... JON FAVREAU War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and... JON ANDERSON Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on s... JON BATISTE You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and... JON FAVREAU People can relate more to being honest about your problems, your insecurities, and the things that y... JON BELLION I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marria... JON ANDERSON Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own ... JON LANDAU People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and th... JON FAVREAU God’s will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your ... JON MORRISON If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable? JON MCGREGOR At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a wo... JON KRAKAUER It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to... JON KRAKAUER The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change ev... JON KRAKAUER According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a su... JON KRAKAUER It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in whi... JON KRAKAUER Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic... JON KRAKAUER On July 2, McCandless finished reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness", having marked several passages ... JON KRAKAUER I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty ... JON KRAKAUER He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wi... JON KRAKAUER