Jason Moran Quotes
In school, I did a lot of computer work. I'd take splices from Kurt Weill songs and loop them in bars, in beats of seven, trying all different kinds of things.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Photography is an accident.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.
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I love watching 'Game of Thrones,' 'Rome,' and 'Spartacus' from the period dramas genre.
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Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.
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It's hard to measure up to 'Battlestar' - it's hard not to measure things against it.
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In school, I did a lot of computer work. I'd take splices from Kurt Weill songs and loop them in bars, in beats of seven, trying all different kinds of things.
