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.H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
Daniel De Leon -
This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
Barbara Smith -
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
R. D. Laing -
Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
Laura Schlessinger -
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.
Laura Benanti -
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.
Magnus Magnusson
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
Malik Bendjelloul -
Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
Jackie Evancho -
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.
E. L. Doctorow -
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.
Ralph Fiennes -
There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
Pat Meehan -
I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
Patrick Wilson
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
Kate Mosse -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
Wale -
Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
Kaki King
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People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.
Katee Sackhoff -
When Saddam Hussein was overthrown, Iraqis resolved never to allow one man, one political party, or one segment of society to dominate our diverse nation. Now we have the opportunity to build an Iraq worthy of what we are: a pluralist people, steeped in history, striving to build one nation in peace and mutual respect.
Haider al-Abadi -
Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.
C. S. Lewis -
He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
Thomas Harris -
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
Anita Loos -
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.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.