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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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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With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.
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Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.
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I am very picky with my career. I don't need to do it for the money or the fame. I'm very choosy, which is why I haven't played the typical role that people expect to see from someone of my stature and size, as the mean jock or the preppy. It's very easy to see me like that. That's why I go against it in different roles.
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I'll miss working with Mark, and all of the other Sharks. Each of them has been incredibly generous and warm to me, and I am proud of all the episodes we made together.
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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.
