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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Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit - a channel for self-actualization.
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My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.
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When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.
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An immense mausoleum of white marble, built in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife, it is the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.
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Terrorists hate Americans. Indians hate each other. A terrorist will blow up an airport. Indians like to work at the airport. That would be counter-productive.
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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.
