H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
Ornette Coleman
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
Dana Perino
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
Lady Gregory
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
Sam Kinison
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Omar Khayyam
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
Garry Shandling
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Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
Jamie Wyeth
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It has always been clear that The Washington Post is a company that is set up for the purpose of protecting the long-term interests of its assets and held together as a holding company.
Jonathan Grayer
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
Manoj Bhargava
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Oliver Herford
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There is something sinister that stems from the fact that freedom and tolerance are so often separated from truth. This is fuelled by the notion, widely held today, that there are no absolute truths to guide our lives. Relativism, by indiscriminately giving value to practically everything, has made 'experience' all-important.
Pope Benedict XVI
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When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.