Jason Isbell Quotes
When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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A will finds a way.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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It was a constraint; he makes of it his mission
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Since I came here I've been treated awesome, in all aspects. I really enjoy playing here.
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It's quite a traumatic thing for a lot of our veterans that come back... You're in a war zone, you're dodging IED's and bullets one day and a couple days later you're back in society again with a bunch of people that have no idea of what you've been through.
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Some get a kick from cocaine. I'm sure that if I took even one sniff That would bore me terrifically, too, Yet, I get a kick out of you.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.
