H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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We're just like a regular family.
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Man shows his character best in trifles.
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So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.
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In everything I do, I want people to get the message of acceptance, to learn not to practice contempt without investigation. I have an obligation to do it.
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Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
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Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
