Jon Johansen Quotes
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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I love to perform live.
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I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
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If my music can change someone's mood for the better even a little bit, that's amazing.
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Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
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I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.
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My parents knew if they kept me active, I'd stay out of trouble.
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I've always had Paul Smith wallets for some reason.
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Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.
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The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.
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There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.
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I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.
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The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.
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I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.
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I don't like closed systems.
