Jason Isbell Quotes
As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
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Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
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You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
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Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.
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Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.
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As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.
