H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
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The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, "Let's do things differently." The majority didn't wake up and say, "Oh, let's just free the slaves." Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time had a better idea and articulated another way. That's simply how evolution works; it's the mutation. The member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they're better adapted for survival.
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Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
