H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.
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Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
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I go out every day. When I get depressed at the office, I go out, and as soon as I'm on the street and see people, I feel better. But I never go out with a preconceived idea. I let the street speak to me.
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I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn't. I started getting really excited about politics.
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Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
