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Let the disappointments pass Let the laughter fill your glass Let the illusions last until they shatter Whatever you might hope to find among the thoughts that crowd your mind There won't be many that ever really matter.
Jackson Browne
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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.
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Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.
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And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.
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People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.
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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.
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Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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