Jon Huntsman, Jr. Quotes

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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• I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Kid

• Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Nature
  • Rain
  • Kiss

• The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Economic
  • Starting

• We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Stand
  • Shine

• Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Old

• When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Write
  • Worth

• I'm an emotional guy.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Guy
  • Emotional

• I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Up
  • Book
  • Thoughts

• The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • School
  • She

• You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Start

• The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.

  

  Kari Wahlgren
  • People
  • Art
  • Support

• I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Characters
  • Many

• My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Country
  • Change
  • Thought

• To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Advantage
  • Disadvantage

• The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Value

• Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Day

• I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Life
  • Experience

• Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Children

• By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

  

  Abe Ajay
  • Art
  • Making
  • Manipulated

• The world is facing a new networked, digital lifestyle, and we will ensure that Canon remains ahead of the game.

  

  Fujio Mitarai
  • World
  • Game

• If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.