Jason Mraz Quotes
Quite simply I've distilled my mission down to the essence. The only thing I'm really here to do is shine light on people's lives through music, through laughter and to simply enjoy being with people.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
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The core idea that underlies all of our democratic states, the core political idea, is this idea that it's not that one person is the sovereign; it's that all of the people are sovereign.
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My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.
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My whole career is slow and steady ... the limited choices I do have I try to change, try to choose to play a variety of people from different backgrounds.
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I hope to show the great worth of women. So far as I'm concerned, we're still underappreciated.
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During my nightmarish time in a coma, 11 days long, you kept appearing in my dreams, wild, you and Slava, like gypsies & always too late. You were a two-man orchestra & we were always looking for you and waiting for you.
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Quite simply I've distilled my mission down to the essence. The only thing I'm really here to do is shine light on people's lives through music, through laughter and to simply enjoy being with people.
