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Jon Porter Quotes

We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.

Jon Porter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 16, 1955

Topics

Myself Balance Pain Child Parent

I'm either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that's the interesting thing about red hair: there's that fiery Renaissance connotation and the ethereal.

Jessica Chastain

Red Hair Thought Interesting Either

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

John Milius

Loved Critics Out Started Something

Dick Mills was in charge of sound effects and all the rest then, and he put the voice through a ring modulator or whatever gizmos he'd got at the time to make it sound a little more electronic.

John Leeson

Time Rest Voice Ring More Sound

I knew at five years old what I wanted to do for a living. I started reading newspapers and books out loud at a very young age. I was very focused on English and building my vocabulary.

Mauro Ranallo

Age Building Reading Young Living

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

Jeff Bezos

Creative Energy Want Somebody Use

As cognitive beings, we rationalise everything. So, I think that's why nemeses are, in general, fascinating to observe, because they decide to act on feelings that we, most of the time, rationalise.

Sofia Boutella

Time Think Feelings Why Everything

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

Michael Shannon

Great Yourself You Acting Pretend

I've never worried about anything in my life a fraction of the way I worry about my daughter. It's much more than hoping people like the play you're in, or that your outfit doesn't look bad. It's the real deal.

Michael Shannon

Life Daughter People My Life Worry

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

Louis Armstrong

Life Good Music World Kind Matter

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Don DeLillo

Life My Life Anything Explanation

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.

Donald O'Connor

Laugh Remember You Boring Jokes

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Bonnie Raitt

Music Great Mind Political Late