H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.
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I consider myself very fortunate to grow up in a time when my family, my friends don't look at me funny because I'm a 29-year-old single woman.
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Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.
