Jon Huntsman, Jr. Quotes
You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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I will keep working hard!
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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When I'm in Paris, my favorite market is the Marche Raspail on the Left Bank.
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In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read a memoir, I want to really, deeply experience what the author experienced. I want to see the characters and hear the way they speak and understand how they think. And so in that way, writing a memoir feels similar to writing a novel.
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Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.
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I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
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You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.
