H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes

Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.

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• To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Natural
  • U.S.
  • Breathing

• I've always enjoyed poor health.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Health
  • Always
  • Poor

• Success demands singleness of purpose.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Purpose
  • Demands

• I believe that dogma is often evil.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Believe
  • Evil
  • Often

• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Want

• Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Honor

• Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • World
  • Real
  • Progress

• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Think
  • Today
  • Fighting

• We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Good
  • Relationship

• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Up
  • Love
  • Experience

• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Play
  • Exciting
  • Broadway

• I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • World
  • Best
  • Travel

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Band
  • Focus

• When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Writing
  • Sex

• Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Time
  • Real
  • Business

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.

  

  V V Brown
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Autumn

• Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Someone