Jon Batiste Quotes
Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.
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We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.
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Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.
