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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I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.
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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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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.
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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.
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In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.
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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.
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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.
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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There's so many kids in the world who are told, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' Those are all put-downs. I'm all about pick-ups. You have to pick people up and pay it forward.
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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
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Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you.
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I was a big shiny, glittery-type person. Now I'm a jeans and T-shirt girl, or I'll wear sun dresses and cowboy boots in the summer. But at first I had to have stylists tell me, 'That's ugly.'
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One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.
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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.
