Jason Isbell Quotes
My dad, he worries a bit, usually with good reason. There were quite a few years there where he was probably trying to resign himself to fact that I wouldn't live too much longer, just because of the way I was living.

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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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A good leader must be fair.
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Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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I joined the board of Chipotle because no company has ever been able to scale fresh, properly sourced food in the history of America.
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The English experience has greatly enriched me, and I'd like to carry on as manager.
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I believe in enjoying the game. If you make it too much work, that's not good.
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
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Not all guys that look a certain way or dress a certain way or act a certain way are the same.
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My dad, he worries a bit, usually with good reason. There were quite a few years there where he was probably trying to resign himself to fact that I wouldn't live too much longer, just because of the way I was living.