Jason Isbell Quotes

If I spent my time wondering about what genre I wanted to be in or where I was on the charts, I wouldn't be able to write these kinds of song. I'd be too busy doing other things.

Jason Isbell

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From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.

Jimmy Reid

SuccessPeopleYouHeightsSee

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

Jill Clayburgh

WomenMeInterestingTreasureMovies

Spider-Man is supposed to be 'neighborhood friendly,' but I've never seen that dude at a Black Lives Matter march.

Jermaine Fowler

BlackMarchMatterNeverFriendly

I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was also a company commander in Korea, so I had some sense of how powerful authority can be. How dangerous it can be.

John Cullum

FatherMyselfPowerfulDangerous

Campaigns are weird animals and innately bring out bizarre road stories.

Meghan McCain

RoadWeirdAnimalsOutBring

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

John Leonard

TreeFallPermanentBooksMaple

I've found that most successful people do things because they get personal satisfaction from the work that they do.

John Rampton

WorkPeopleSatisfactionPersonal

If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle.

Sissy Spacek

GreatMeThinkStarFineSomebody

I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his associations with James Dean and Andy Warhol, the fact that he made 'Easy Rider.' I thought his story would have a really great outlaw literary quality to it.

Tom Folsom

GreatQualityWorldStoryThought

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May

FutureSadDepressionConstruct

For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.

Jay S. Walker

FutureHistoryJobImaginationDoing

I have set out to change the language of the international system.

Clare Short

ChangeLanguageOutSystemSet

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