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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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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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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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
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To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.
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Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have not been wrong.
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You can't fake listening. It shows.
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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.
