Jason Isbell Quotes
No matter what you thought your plans were, that's not how things are going to work out, and that's the only way you can really, I think, live successfully.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
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I never really sang for anyone, apart from in the shower or with my best friend. I was shy. I didn't want to take voice lessons. I knew I could sing, but I just didn't tell anyone.
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Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.
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The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
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It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
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No matter what you thought your plans were, that's not how things are going to work out, and that's the only way you can really, I think, live successfully.
