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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Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.
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I may be a real bad boy, but baby, I'm a real good man.
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There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.
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She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.
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One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.
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I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us
