Jackson Browne Quotes
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.
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I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.
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The problems we face aren't Democratic problems or Republican problems. These are Maryland's problems.
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I remember when AOL was small and they were growing like mad. Consumers were coming on in droves because they made it easy to connect to the Internet. That was the single biggest innovation of AOL; when grandmas were signing up, AOL had arrived.
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When I eat biscuits, I also eat grits.
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I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!
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He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
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We go to battle against the plutocratic and reactionary democracies of the west… This gigantic struggle is nothing other than a phase in the logical development of our revolution; it is the struggle of peoples that are poor but rich in workers against the exploiters who hold on ferociously to the monopoly off all the riches and all the gold of the earth…
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We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.
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I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.
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All taxpayers feel a tremendous sense of frustration as they see many tens of billions of dollars of bonuses paid to the same mega banks that were on the brink of bankruptcy and were only saved by massive government rescue money and support. We are not satisfied by the fact that many of them have paid the money back, nor should we be.
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A is for Adam and E is for Eve. B is for bile, blood and bones.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown
