Jason Isbell Quotes
If I spend time at the front of the process worrying about connecting themes, then I won't write the best songs.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
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I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.
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The life of an editor may seem all glam all the time, but there's nothing like schlepping through the city during a torrential downpour to put things in perspective.
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So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.
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Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
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I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered - now I have only one doubt left - which of the twain was God?
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If I spend time at the front of the process worrying about connecting themes, then I won't write the best songs.
