Jason Isbell Quotes
If you're going to document your own journey, the jokes work better in the first person, just like the stories do.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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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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You want your coach's blessing.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
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I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?
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Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.
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If you're going to document your own journey, the jokes work better in the first person, just like the stories do.
