A. Y. Jackson Quotes
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I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.
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When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.
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After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but we didn't, and let a lot of the tab slide. So not all lending and borrowing is bad.
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I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage.
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When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
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Since women ask me about male motives all the time, I can offer a bit of advice. If you feel like you're going to get hurt then you shouldn't be there in the first place. That's the way I look at relationships.
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The decision to work with Marvel for a while isn't any sort of denigration of DC. I had a fantastic time there, I was treated extremely well, I have strong positive feelings about all of my editors and the DC universe of characters, and I look forward to hopefully working with them at some point down the road.
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I enjoyed playing any type of cricket. Didn't matter what type it was because I did not want to change my game. My game was built on one type of cricket: if there was a ball to hit, you hit it, whether it was Test matches, whatever it was.
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If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.
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You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.
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Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.
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I like 'Unsung' but I'd rather have a 'Behind the Music' while I'm still breathing.
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It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.
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I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.
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In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
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Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.
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Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
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It's unfortunate and unexpected. It's not a routine occurrence. That's why it's shocking.
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A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.
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I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.
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It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.
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Those who follow are always behind.
