H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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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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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
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By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill.
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Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.