Jon Huntsman, Sr. Quotes
You're in the game of life to fight. If you're in business, and you're not aggressively building, you shouldn't be in.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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Baseball has all the money.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
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Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.
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You're in the game of life to fight. If you're in business, and you're not aggressively building, you shouldn't be in.
