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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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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.
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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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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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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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
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I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.
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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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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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Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age
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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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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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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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