H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.
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The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.
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Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a U.S. senator from the state of Connecticut.
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I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.
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I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
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Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
