Jason Moran Quotes

As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.

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• A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • First
  • Nervous

• My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Problems
  • Lifestyle
  • Breathing

• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Literature
  • First
  • German

• I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Greek
  • Fruit
  • Yogurt

• The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Together

• I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Music
  • Love
  • Singing

• I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Good
  • Young
  • Guitar

• I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Life
  • Great
  • Different

• In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • World
  • Home
  • Weekend

• If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Beautiful
  • Weather
  • License

• When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Stand
  • Street

• I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Know
  • Moon

• An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • World
  • Artist
  • Influence

• 'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Success
  • Film

• A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Story
  • Comfort

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Knowledge
  • Trust
  • Shadow

• To the young girl who fails to see opportunities around her: Awaken the intellectual curiosity within you. Go on, search for those opportunities and chase after them! Because when you are curious and in 'search mode,' you will meet a lot of people and learn, and when you find opportunities, you will be exhilarated rather than overwhelmed.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • Girl
  • Search

• Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

  

  Aeschines
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Community

• As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Nature