H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom.
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Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
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As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.
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That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.
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Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
