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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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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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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The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? 'It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils,' came a low growl from somewhere on the table, 'without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy.'
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Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.
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We have seen how it is originally language which works on the construction of concepts, a labor taken over in later ages by science. Just as the bee simultaneously constructs cells and fills them with honey, so science works unceasingly on this great columbarium of concepts, the graveyard of perceptions.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.
