Jason Moran Quotes

I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.

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• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Hard

• I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Want
  • Now
  • Everyone

• A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Love
  • Feelings

• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Rock

• There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Words
  • Feelings
  • Describe

• Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Society
  • Simple

• Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Me

• People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Work
  • High

• People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I like to race, not to do laps alone.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Alone
  • Like
  • Race

• One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Life
  • Trust

• You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Myself

• Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Work
  • Play

• The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Light

• I had breast cancer. Yeah, I know it's scary.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Know
  • Cancer
  • Scary

• Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • People
  • Family
  • Job

• Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

  

  Claes Oldenburg
  • Death
  • Chicago

• I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Same

• Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Success
  • Small

• I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.

  

  Jason Moran