Jason Moran Quotes
I grew up with KTSU, and that station gave me so much info about the pantheon of black sounds: reggae, gospel, blues, soul, hip hop, and mostly they played jazz. That was a major part of how I understood music.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I don't like controversy.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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Chremylus: Wealth, the most excellent of all the gods. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
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All of my music is honest.
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I grew up with KTSU, and that station gave me so much info about the pantheon of black sounds: reggae, gospel, blues, soul, hip hop, and mostly they played jazz. That was a major part of how I understood music.
