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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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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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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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.
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I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.
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II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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The best politics is no politics.
