Jon Huntsman, Sr. Quotes
True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I like most any place if I have Internet access.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I am doing a lot of work for my church, taking an evangelism class, doing a lot of reading - mostly the Bible and things that coordinate with the Bible and go with the evangelism class.
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True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.
