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 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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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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The September 11th, 2012, attacks on the State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya, is important and should be studied because in the big picture, it represents a failed foreign policy that spans across both Bush and Obama Presidencies.
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I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.
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I've made the film 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there's really no Western genre over in Asia.
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Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.
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Maybe, but I don't have another life to live to wait around for it.
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
