Jason Kander Quotes
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.
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Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling.
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I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.
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Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.
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He's like a bizarro me. One of us is working for good, and the other is Kris Kobach.
