Jason Molina Quotes
As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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I've never been a partier.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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I love my sleep.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.
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If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me feel awful. It would be terrible.
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I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
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I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.
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As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.
