Jason Mraz Quotes
For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.
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I don’t regret any of the decisions I’ve made in my life. Because with every choice I’ve made, I’ve learned something new.
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I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.
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For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me.
