H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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People take things so seriously.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.
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If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
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Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.
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My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
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Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
