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 paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.
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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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If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.
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'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
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I really felt we had all the elements to seriously make a run. On the other hand, in years past we had far more depth and could have withstood more things. At the beginning of the year I felt we were flexible enough to pull this off, and throughout the Big East season there was no reason we shouldn't have been able to at least get back to the Elite Eight level and be a Final Four team.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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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.
