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" I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.' "
Jon Bon Jovi
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" There are those who advocate, and those who do. I'm not trying to slight my peers, but there is a difference between using a soapbox and actually getting your hands dirty. I've spent not only years and millions of dollars but hours and hours and hours of my time doing what I do, and that's very different from what anyone else is doing. "
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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. "
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" I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror. "
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Bedroom
Kid
Tennis
" I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health. "
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Pray
Me
Every Day
" I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football. "
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Understand
Want
Football
" There's a vintage which comes with age and experience. "
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" The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure. "
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Lose
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Her
" What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house. "
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People
Politics
Voice
" My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege. "
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Class
Work
Privilege
" You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that. "
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People
Me
Fat
" Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in. "
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Believe
Pretend
Night
" I like progress but I hate change. "
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Change
Progress
Like
" You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy. "
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Happy
Grow
Night
" The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Hold
Way
Myself
" If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful. "
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Successful
People
How
" There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Garage
Up
Over
" Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Become
You
Time
" My health and my family are the core of my being. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Family
Being
Core
" If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Life
Me
Mistake
" Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Yesterday
Away
Blues
" Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. "
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Love
Dying
Art
" 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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Portrait
Constitution
Rock Star
" Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will? "
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Love
Magic
Believe In Yourself
" We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on. "
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Music
Past
Rise
" I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Think
Lot
Music
" Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. "
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Road
Ahead
Future
" I'm not a big disco guy. "
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Big
Guy
Disco
" We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands? "
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Up
Best
Boy
" This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it. "
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Good
Rock
Living
" You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me. "
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Me
You
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