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.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Fun
  • Loss
  • Teammates

• You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Government
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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.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • You
  • Just
  • Appreciate

• Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • You
  • Myself
  • Possible

• If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Job
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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.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • School
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Power
  • Facts
  • Questions

• You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • You
  • Healthy
  • Diet

• 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.'

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • Simple
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Process

• We shared our father with the world.

  

  Laila Ali
  • World
  • Father
  • Our

• 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.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Good
  • Information
  • Treat

• 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.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• The Rachel Maddow Show transcripts on MSNBC.com

  

  Rachel Maddow

• 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.

  

  Yann Martel
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• As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.

  

  Jean Piaget
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  • Respect

• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Live
  • Fashion
  • Sky

• The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Actions
  • Passions

• I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.

  

  Aminatta Forna

• ... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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  • Bad
  • Abuse

• Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again.

  

  Aza Raskin
  • Way
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• Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Cake
  • Sheep
  • Vodka

• I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.

  

  Judy Blume
  • People
  • Together
  • Parent

• I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.

  

  Jason Moran