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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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.
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The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.
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Do your own thing. Speak in your voice.
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It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.
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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.
