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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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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.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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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.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
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If you only give a little bit - of the truth, of your time, of money - then you're being sincere. Give too much, and you're probably just careless, and it means nothing.
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We have a song, 'Welcome to the Family' - we realized for the first time in our lives that people go through this every day around the world. There is someone very close to them that they're losing, every day. That song is, 'We know how you're feeling.'
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but what if the next government isn't so benevolent?
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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.
