Jason Robert Brown Quotes

Being a musician - and I like to think of myself as a musician with a capital M - you need to be an omnivore, and I think the best musicians will listen to anything and love everything, and I do.

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• To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Olympics
  • World Championships
  • Qualify

• It's healthy to have interests besides books.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Books
  • Healthy
  • Besides

• Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Life
  • Fire
  • Will

• I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Why
  • Me

• I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • People
  • Life
  • Woman

• What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Live
  • Like
  • Jazz

• I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Life
  • Women
  • Single

• All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Religious

• I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Guns

• For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • She
  • Man

• Let who will scoff and revile – I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonders which have been shown to me by the Lord, who knew all things even before the time of this world, many years before, just as they happened.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Time
  • World
  • Lord

• The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • True
  • Progress
  • Without

• There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Cold
  • Sympathy

• Someone who would go across a desert that can kill you, to get to another country? You want to be an American *that* bad? 'Cause I've never had to lift my damn finger to be an American. I'm honored to share a country with you.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Country
  • American
  • Bad

• He looked me right in the face and said, 'You fucking bulldyke!' And I thought to myself, 'Oooh, what a smart man! Why, I'll bet he took one look at me and knew I was white, too!'

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Why
  • Smart

• I wanted to be a violin-maker like my dad, and then I wanted to be a doorman in my building.

  

  Katherine Moennig
  • Dad

• I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Political
  • Thinker
  • Paine

• The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

  

  Carrie Mae Weems
  • Freedom
  • Look
  • Camera

• The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Decision
  • Framework

• I'm not looking for anything. If you start looking for something specific, then you take providence right out of it. You can't completely control it. Otherwise you'd make the same kind of movie over and over again, which some people say I've done.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Providence
  • Looking Specific

• Being a musician - and I like to think of myself as a musician with a capital M - you need to be an omnivore, and I think the best musicians will listen to anything and love everything, and I do.

  

  Jason Robert Brown