Jason Isbell Quotes
I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.
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Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.
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I don't think it's healthy to buy into hype in any form, whether it's positive or negative. You have to exist in yourself and just move on with life.
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I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.
