Jon Huntsman, Sr. Quotes
Why should someone who has $5 billion only give away $2.5 billion? They can't take it with them.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.
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I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.
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You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
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I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.
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Why should someone who has $5 billion only give away $2.5 billion? They can't take it with them.
