Jason Isbell Quotes
I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.
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Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck will produce variations in outcomes.
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Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.
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I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.
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I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving.
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I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.
