Henry M. Jackson Quotes
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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I have no political aspirations. That's it.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.
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The best politics is no politics.
