Jason Isbell Quotes
The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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I am just one human being.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
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I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.
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You always hear people say, 'I just want to live comfortably.' And I'm like, 'What does that mean?'
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The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.
