Jason Falkner Quotes
I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.
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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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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!
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I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for 'Running off to Canada.'
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God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
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Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.
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I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.
