Jason Isbell Quotes
I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.
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You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
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I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
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There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.
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History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.
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I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.
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For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
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I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
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I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.
