H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
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I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
