Jackson Browne Quotes
And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.
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Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
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Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
