H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.
Quotes to Explore
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski -
'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
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When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.
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We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.
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Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.
