Jon Huntsman, Jr. Quotes
I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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Religiosity is suffocating in Pakistan. It invariably stokes the fire in driving society to religious extremism.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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In my country, though it is very patriarchal and male-dominated, the public enjoys women-directed movies.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.
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I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.
