H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
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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.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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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.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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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.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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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.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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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.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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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.
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I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.
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I want to reach the Mr. Joneses and Mrs. Smiths who wouldn't give Waco a second thought.
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People say to me all the time, 'When did you know that you had fully become an American?' And I say, 'The day I realized I loved peanut butter.'
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I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'
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For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
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Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.
