Jon Batiste Quotes

My whole way of looking at entertainment and audience engagement - and my ability to go from one genre to another - comes from my experience in New Orleans.

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• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Think Big

• When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Idea
  • Shoes
  • Dirty

• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
  • Literary
  • Equivalent

• You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • You
  • Difference

• You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • You
  • Masterpiece

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Simple
  • Church
  • Trump

• The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Islamic

• Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • World
  • Country
  • Age

• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Hate
  • Same
  • Sound

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Touching
  • Originally

• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Future
  • Myself

• I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Always
  • Successful
  • Busy

• I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Myself

• My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.

  

  Steve Martin

• I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Past

• I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.

  

  Jayson Williams
  • Family
  • Want
  • Baby

• I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better.

  

  Ashley Williams
  • Challenge

• Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Truth

• My whole way of looking at entertainment and audience engagement - and my ability to go from one genre to another - comes from my experience in New Orleans.

  

  Jon Batiste
  • Experience
  • Engagement