H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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I never had a kid before, and it's the best. It's something you're privileged to be part of, and my favorite things in the world are my kid and wife.
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My wife's trying to get me into yoga, and it's gonna take me a while, but eventually I'm gonna have to.
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Every night I try to look at the audience and treat every audience differently. It's almost like it's a single entity or a person. I always try to treat it like a conversation and allow it to happen naturally in the same way that you would engage in conversation.
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When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
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I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
