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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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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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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I really feel that I've carried on my mother's legacy.
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This partisan decision by a packed GOP state Supreme Court takes away worker's rights to bargain for a safe place to work. It underscores the need to vote for me in Aug. 12th primary. As governor, I will call a special session of the Legislature on day one to restore workers' rights, health care and retirement
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Tuning must come first. Each recital begins with a careful tightening of the pegs on the cross-bar, twisting them in their socket of red threads as each string is plucked and tested. He uses his thumb for this, softer and subtler than the plectrum, his head bent to the vibrating string and his lips slightly open, breathing quickly, as over the body of a lover.
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The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.
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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.
