Jason Moran Quotes

I'm a prime example of a person who loves hip-hop, and I will defend it till the day I die.

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• I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
  • Proud

• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Today
  • Fight

• I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Movie
  • Disney
  • Director

• I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mind
  • City
  • Crazy

• Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Women

• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Same

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • Men
  • Education

• From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Greatest
  • Irony
  • Horrors

• We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Growing
  • Know
  • Moments

• I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Girl
  • Tough
  • Reflect

• I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Words
  • Alone
  • Moral

• Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Taken
  • Stars
  • Exist

• Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Home
  • Hope
  • Age

• I've never worried about how long the song is.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Long
  • Song
  • Never

• Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Work
  • May
  • Power

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Friends
  • Respect

• In a democracy, a government’s policies are rarely questioned until the underlying assumptions that create them are questioned.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Democracy

• The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster homosexuality whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Children
  • Rest

• I'm down here in Mexico, sick as a dog.My head is poundin' in this border town fog.Down to my last dime and comin' apart at the seams.I've messed up in Mexico, livin' on refried dreams.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Up
  • Dog
  • Sick

• I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

  

  Kenny Wormald
  • Learning
  • Dance

• Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Die
  • Reader
  • Poem

• I'm a prime example of a person who loves hip-hop, and I will defend it till the day I die.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Die