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" If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Down
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Tie
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" I like progress but I hate change. "
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" 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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" Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues. "
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" There's a vintage which comes with age and experience. "
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" I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford. "
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" We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands? "
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" 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. "
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" Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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 went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church. "
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" 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. "
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" I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" My health and my family are the core of my being. "
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" I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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