Jason Isbell Quotes

I have my own definitions of success. And I have my own definitions of country music that, luckily, I share with more people than I realized before.

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• It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• I don't like people cleaning my room.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Like
  • Cleaning

• I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Me
  • Looking

• When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • English
  • Thought

• I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Good
  • Company

• The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • First
  • Serving

• The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Country
  • Dream

• The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Friends
  • Star

• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • House
  • Opera

• Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • People
  • Like
  • Anniversary

• Even through 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League,' I have yet to have that instant recognition and at such an early stage, where people totally didn't know my name, but they knew my face immediately.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • People
  • She
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• I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Fear
  • Me

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Language

• I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• In 1991, the government unleashed the power of India and created a partnership between itself and industry. As a result, India has emerged as an economic success story, and that is a matter of pride for all of us.

  

  Kumar Mangalam Birla
  • Power
  • Success
  • Pride

• I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • People
  • Time

• What I’m saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • God
  • Done
  • Job

• I hate it when you really think you're getting something good... and you don't listen to your dudes when you really should.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Hate

• We'd been on Geffen for a long time, and I think we felt that we needed a change. I just don't think we felt very close to the people at the label after all this time or that they understood what we were trying to do. I don't have any regrets, because at the time we signed with Geffen, it was the right thing to do.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Change
  • Felt
  • Needed

• I have my own definitions of success. And I have my own definitions of country music that, luckily, I share with more people than I realized before.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Music
  • Country