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" I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Understand
Want
Football
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" 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. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Believe
Pretend
Night
" 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. "
Jon Bon Jovi
People
Me
Fat
" 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. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Hands
Difference
Trying
" 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? "
Jon Bon Jovi
Love
Magic
Believe In Yourself
" My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Anybody
Philanthropy
None
" Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Will
You
Jeans
" New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Growing Up
Shadow
I Am
" 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 waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Yesterday
Away
Blues
" If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Successful
People
How
" If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Down
Me
Tie
" My health and my family are the core of my being. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Family
Being
Core
" I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Football
Baseball
Guy
" My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Class
Work
Privilege
" Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Fighting
Doing
Man
" Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Road
Ahead
Future
" I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Broken Glass
Crawl
Over
" I like progress but I hate change. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Change
Progress
Like
" 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
" I'm not a big disco guy. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Big
Guy
Disco
" 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. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Portrait
Constitution
Rock Star
" Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Daughter
Women
Wife
" We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands? "
Jon Bon Jovi
Up
Best
Boy
" 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
" 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. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Love
Dying
Art
" 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. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Lose
Money
Her
" 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. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Music
Past
Rise
" You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Me
You
Kiss
" 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. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Happy
Grow
Night
" There's a vintage which comes with age and experience. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Vintage
Which
Age