H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean.
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Schoenberg's music leads us into a realm where musical experience is a matter not of the ear but of the soul alone, and at this point the music of the future begins.
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Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.
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Becoming a parent has changed the risk calculus for me. But it might be age, too, and seeing a lot of friends die in the mountains. Will I take the same risks I took in my 20s? Probably not, but I will always push myself in the mountains.
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People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.
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I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.
