Jason Isbell Quotes
There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they don't dread... I'm very lucky.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion.
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I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.
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There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they don't dread... I'm very lucky.
