Jason Moran Quotes
Music, many times, around the world, serves to help us understand other people without having to talk.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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I always have to have mascara; otherwise, I feel like I don't look awake enough. It's like, 'I have eyes now!'
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The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.
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'Bosch' itself - it has a huge fanbase already from the Michael Connelly books, so it was definitely intriguing because you know going in that there's all those people who will want to watch it, and I knew it was going to be a down-and-dirty, gritty, no-make-up part, so that was scary and yet so exciting.
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There's seven billion people on the planet. It's not about you.
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Music, many times, around the world, serves to help us understand other people without having to talk.
