Jon Huntsman, Sr. Quotes
I'm the only one in America who belongs to the 'Cure Cancer' party, so if you give money to cancer, like Harry Reid and Max Baucus, some of these guys really helped us raise big money for cancer, I give them big money for their reelections.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.
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Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
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And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
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Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.
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I don't like to talk about things unless I have to. I don't like to talk a scene to death or overanalyze it, especially if I feel like I have some way in on my own.
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I'm the only one in America who belongs to the 'Cure Cancer' party, so if you give money to cancer, like Harry Reid and Max Baucus, some of these guys really helped us raise big money for cancer, I give them big money for their reelections.
