Jason Moran Quotes
I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter.
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There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.
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Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
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I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.
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Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all. They are actually excited about it.
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I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.
