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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You may not realize initially how many other opportunities are wrapped up inside the first one. After you go through the first door, you'll then discover more doors automatically opening behind that one. One door leads you to another door, which leads to another door, and so one. It's like ten other boxes packed inside one box. The initial door that God opens is your access to more opportunities. But you must be willing to walk through the first one to get to the other good things God has for you.
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I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which mostly miss the living spirit behind the forms).
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To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is that we might leave some parts of us behind in the hearts of those we love and in that way live on.
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Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.
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Those who follow are always behind.
