Jon Huntsman, Sr. Quotes

I found that, academically, it really didn't matter whether I had received a certain grade in a class; it didn't matter too much what schools I wanted to attend... What matters is one's drive, one's intelligence.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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• As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Women
  • Faith
  • Bible

• I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really important because my email, my contacts, my calendar. Everything is here and it's synced up with that computer. It's synced up with my assistant's computer.'

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Age
  • Parents

• Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • American
  • Serious
  • Military

• I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Giving
  • Advice
  • Who

• I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Want
  • Realize
  • Arms

• The Pentagon is a series of wedges. So you have - the outer wedge has windows on the outside, and then inside of that, it has windows with an alleyway; then there's another wedge with windows outside, windows inside. And we call them the E Ring, the D Ring, the C Ring.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Inside
  • Ring
  • Windows

• I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • Peace
  • Admit

• I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Animals
  • Guns

• Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Think
  • Him

• It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Good
  • Live
  • Success

• I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.

  

  Warren Kole
  • People
  • Know
  • Place

• Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • History
  • Greatest
  • Medicine

• I touched her thigh and death smiled

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Death

• Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Different
  • Heart
  • War

• I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.

  

  Bibhu Mohapatra
  • Reality

• I started watching 'The Stooges' religiously and obsessively when I was probably about four or five years old till around the age of 18.

  

  Chris Diamantopoulos
  • Age

• People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

  

  Peter Davison
  • People
  • World

• And I love writing. I've always loved writing.

  

  James Daly
  • Writing

• I do have a place in my heart for animal shelters because the job they have is impossible - so many animals that need to euthanized because don't have homes for them.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Heart
  • Job
  • Animal

• No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Same
  • Wealth

• When I talk to young people who want to go to Broadway or whatever, I say, 'The highs are very high and the lows are very low and then there is a lot in between.'

  

  Liz Callaway
  • People
  • High

• The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Courage
  • Attack
  • Dangers

• I found that, academically, it really didn't matter whether I had received a certain grade in a class; it didn't matter too much what schools I wanted to attend... What matters is one's drive, one's intelligence.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Sr.