H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.
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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 psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.
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It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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The holidays are only holy if we make them so.
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If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
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I'm sure I've lost a few jobs because I'm a Christian. That's irrelevant. I can honestly say that of everything I have, of everything I've experienced, nothing compares to the joy of knowing Christ. Because I've been given a glimpse of Heaven and it outshines all of the rest.
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I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
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I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.
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You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.
