Edwin Jackson Quotes
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.
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I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Perhaps a little of Trollope, but not to drown in him.
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The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
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People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'
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I've always been a guy who goes against everything people say.
