Jackson Browne Quotes
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I never said half the things I said.
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My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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Have common sense and stick to the point.
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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
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The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.
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The youth was a cretin, and didn’t even realize that he was. He could think of no more disastrous combination.
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Ted, I noted, was very busy - at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine.
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But now the seeds are planted and the gates are opened wideThe old ways are forgotten there is no place left to hideAnd the legacy I'm leaving you is not very hard to findYou'll see it all around you at this crossroads of timeIn the sweet soil its a growing at the crossroads of time
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I also heard he got busted for smoking weed and he’s really sorry about it and people make mistakes and he’s never gonna do it again.
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I think it tells the truth and it cuts to the heart of so many profound aspects of human experience unlike many musicals, which cover more frivolous topics.
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Great 'D.' Better shot. It was a great shot with a double pump and everything. You have to give him credit. Ray Allen is clutch.
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This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the performance of ethnicity, and how they intermingle across cultures.
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I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research.
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I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us
