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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Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one.
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
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Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.
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Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school.
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Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.
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Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
