Jackson Browne Quotes

These days I sit on cornerstonesAnd count the time in quarter-tones to ten, my friendDon't confront me with my failuresI had not forgotten them.

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• My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Bad
  • Play
  • Mood

• I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Goal

• Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Different
  • Today
  • Intelligence

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Thoughts

• Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Proud

• Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Real
  • Fool
  • Genius

• We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Game
  • Best
  • Football

• The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Reading

• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Thought
  • Scared
  • Floating

• Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Best
  • Guilty
  • Discovery

• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Movie
  • Read
  • Maybe

• I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Time
  • God
  • Free

• Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Great
  • Something
  • Lot

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Sad

• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Powerful
  • Innovation

• Every time something is taken away, you're forced to take a step back and realize how much that thing means to you. You don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Time
  • Taken

• Kill Rock Stars has a willingness to really work with the artist and to be flexible with what they're doing... part of being an independent artists means having your hands in the business all the time, so they bring in a lot of ideas about it.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Business

• I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in the fashion world, I was just a pretty girl at a party wearing a pretty dress.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• No party or event is without a reason. This is how we foster new relationships, open doors, and launch new ideas that create business opportunities, investments, and jobs in the U.S. and Spain.

  

  James Costos
  • Business
  • Party

• These days I sit on cornerstonesAnd count the time in quarter-tones to ten, my friendDon't confront me with my failuresI had not forgotten them.

  

  Jackson Browne
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