Jason Bateman Quotes

I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.

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• When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

  

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• Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

  

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• For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

  

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• The good romances are as good as anything.

  

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• I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.

  

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• I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Art
  • Band