H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Samora Machel
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
Barry Mann
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
Irving Stone
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
Rachel Cusk
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
Calvin Johnson
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
Laura Wade
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
Madeleine Albright
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
Rachel Cohn
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
Sam Levenson
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
G. H. Hardy
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
Ramez Naam
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
Gary Shteyngart
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No person is just one particular emotion.
Octavia Spencer
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
Imogen Heap
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
Madeleine Stowe
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
Aaron Neville
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac
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And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the “my way or the highway” approach that was evident in the previous eight years.
Madeleine Albright
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The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning.
Lucy Dacus
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TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.
Douglas Coupland
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Benzino has a long, credible history as a rapper and as a producer.
Dave Itzkoff
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It must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.
John Calvin
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Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.