Jason Isbell Quotes
I think I affiliate with somebody like Ben Howard. He's quite a bit younger than I am, but I think what he's doing is in a very similar tradition.
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.
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Rather than support workers at home or investments in public schools, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support the Bush-era tax cuts for the very wealthy. They want to hand over our schools to private corporations.
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I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.
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Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us - don't take us for granted!
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I kept getting told, 'You need to bulk up. Burgers and shakes. Burgers and shakes.' That's never been my thing.
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Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.
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Fashion is a great thing, it's a way to express who you are.
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Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.
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The female has learned by long experience to win by losing, to wield power in the passive-aggressive manner of the sadomasochist.
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My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.
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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
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Being a role model is cool and a great honor. I'm grateful to be considered one and will live up to that title by encouraging kids to eat their Wheaties and brush their teeth often.
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I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged and papers are read. That is a real boon, and it is something I think every scholar or writer can benefit from.
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I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.
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If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there's more to what's written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don't see.
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I think I affiliate with somebody like Ben Howard. He's quite a bit younger than I am, but I think what he's doing is in a very similar tradition.
