Jason Isbell Quotes
I like not having to worry about paying the bills, but I have to watch myself because I don't come from money.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.
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2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually using blockchain technologies for payments and settlement rather than as an experiment.
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Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.
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For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.
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I like not having to worry about paying the bills, but I have to watch myself because I don't come from money.
