Jackson Browne Quotes
I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.
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We're achieving a lot of success right now and it's not all happening at once, so I think there's a lot of momentum to go. It makes us feel good about ourselves.
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There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.
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Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
