H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.
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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
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I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.
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It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.
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To live in a saint's heart? I'm afraid of setting the sky ablaze.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
