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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Europeans could not believe that anything so beautiful could have been designed by a non-European. Europeans of the time considered the people of India uncivilized. They recognized that it was a magnificent building. So they thought it couldn’t have been designed by an Indian.
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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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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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I don't really have many regrets. I did miss a lot of the events in the days leading up to my sister's wedding because I was at a U17 camp. There were moments like that growing up when I felt like I focused too much on soccer. But that's probably the reason I am where I am today.
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When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.
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Donald Trump is out to destroy people's lives, and he's trying to take our democracy down. That is something we can fight with everything we've got, but having compassion for one another while we do it is going to get us a lot further.
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I don't like closed systems.
