Jason Isbell Quotes
Sometimes I leave an encounter or a conversation hoping that I didn't come off as above my raisin' - hoping that I didn't make somebody feel bad for not having as much as we're fortunate to have.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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I like things simple.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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I'm very excited to have a girl.
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I'll go on '60 Minutes,' and whereas other parents would be like, 'You did a great job. I'm so proud of you,' my mother will be like, 'Your hair - it was not nice.'
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.
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Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.
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Sometimes I leave an encounter or a conversation hoping that I didn't come off as above my raisin' - hoping that I didn't make somebody feel bad for not having as much as we're fortunate to have.
