H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction. Its growth in importance is but an evidence of the tendency of progress toward the abolition of the State.
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In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
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When I was first elected to the House in 2006, it was important to me to send a clear message to the people of NY-20: I wanted to be a representative for the people and shed some light on their government, so I became the first member of Congress to post my schedule, my financial disclosures and my earmark requests all online.
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I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.
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I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can’t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.
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Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.
