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.
Quotes to Explore
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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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.
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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.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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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.
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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.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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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.
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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.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods. But man, every city I've looked at, Milwaukee included, most evictions are right there, smack dab in ungentrifying, poor, segregated communities.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
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No one I hang out with thinks that a random person on the street should be able to buy a machine gun.
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
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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.
