Jason Isbell Quotes
I don't care what 'Pitchfork' says. They write from a place that's a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about what they're talking about.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.
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Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.
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But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.
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I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.
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We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
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I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.
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As a 6-foot, 6-inch, 300-pound black man, I've done everything I can to stay out of that box that Hollywood tries to put me in. I've been able to play a variety of roles, like the character of Vern in 'Shall We Dance?' with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez to the character of Neal in 'Things We Lost in the Fire.' I've been blessed.
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The vidphone company let me off the hook.
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The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.
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I'm so straight and boring, really. I have two kids and a very nice partner.
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I always think I look better after a yoga class. It's the same as a massage. We look so amazing after a massage because we're relaxed.
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I don't care what 'Pitchfork' says. They write from a place that's a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about what they're talking about.
