Jason Moran Quotes
I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
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I'm always working. I work wherever I am.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.
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You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.
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I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'
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They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.
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We shared our father with the world.
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If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.
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I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.
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The Rachel Maddow Show transcripts on MSNBC.com
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I applied my reason at every moment. Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.
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Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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I go where people are hurting. I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half.
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Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.
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I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.
