Jason Mraz Quotes
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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I was approached to do a film script for the Beatles. I said it would have to be an absolutely original script. Paul McCartney said do whatever you like. I said that means you'll never be able to do it.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a young mogul. I'm blessed.
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Open up your plans and damn you're free!
