H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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‘As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.’
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Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then indeed the whole of National Socialism has been in vain. To the contrary, in my opinion one should bury bronze plates on which it is recorded that we have had the courage to carry out this great and so necessary work.
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There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
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Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
