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'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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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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I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'
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The best politics is no politics.
