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" My health and my family are the core of my being. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Family
Being
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" I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford. "
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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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Fat
" 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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" 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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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. "
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Past
Rise
" 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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" 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. "
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Fighting
Doing
Man
" 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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Rock
Living
" I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling. "
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Think
Lot
Music
" I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Football
Baseball
Guy
" 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
" 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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Will
You
Jeans
" 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
" 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
" I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Understand
Want
Football
" 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
" Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Yesterday
Away
Blues
" 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
" Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. "
Jon Bon Jovi
Passion
Important
Life
" I'm not a big disco guy. "
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Big
Guy
Disco
" Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. "
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Falling
Nine
Success Is
" I like progress but I hate change. "
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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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Garage
Up
Over
" 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
" 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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DJ
Me
Long
" 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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Daughter
Women
Wife
" If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful. "
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Successful
People
How
" 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. "
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Life
Me
Mistake