Jason Moran Quotes

I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.

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• No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • Family
  • School

• I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Listening
  • Blood

• Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Lived
  • Decade
  • Shed

• I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Working
  • Library
  • Will

• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Long
  • Run
  • Spoon

• My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Me
  • Football
  • Old

• The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Said
  • Strategy
  • Islam

• The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Why

• In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Women
  • Wear
  • Some

• I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Work
  • Me
  • Shape

• When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Him

• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Most

• I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Support
  • Feel
  • Helps

• I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Power
  • Religious

• I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Life
  • Thought
  • My Life

• I've made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland's roads and bridges is our top transportation priority, and it is a top priority of our administration.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Building
  • Priority
  • Bridges

• If there's anything I think that you've seen about me, it's that I'm the rebellious girl.

  

  Aubrey O'Day
  • Girl

• It is also possible for a woman to go back to a man’s room, tell him she doesn’t want to have intercourse, mean it, start kissing, have intercourse, and then wish she hadn’t in the morning. How? Kissing is like eating potato chips. Before we know it, we’ve gone further than we said we would.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • She
  • Wish
  • Morning

• When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with companies from all over the world - but these companies don't share, really, their profits - this is called post-post-colonial.

  

  Claire Denis
  • World
  • Business

• Although I'm shorter, all of my weight I carry in my back and my butt. That's where most of my weight is.

  

  Eddie Alvarez

• Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization; an insult to the principles of our Declaration of Independence; a bane of our national spirit; and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God.

  

  Chuck Baldwin
  • Holocaust
  • Abortion
  • Insult

• I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.

  

  Jason Moran