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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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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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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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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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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Every family struggles with different things, and everybody struggles with different things.
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I want to make people feel good about who they are regardless of who they are or where they come from or the color of their skin or what their family acts like or what they look like. I am all about acceptance of others and of yourself.
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The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.
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I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.
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The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.
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The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.
