Jason Robert Brown Quotes
I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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You cannot deal with an industrial-strength extremist problem just with force of arms. You have to have that political component as well.
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Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.
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I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.
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When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
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I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.
