Jason Mraz Quotes
What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
Felix Adler
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
Adam D'Angelo
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos
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Being evil is easy.
J. K. Simmons
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
Daniel Bryan
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel
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I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
Nancy Farmer
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
Carly Fiorina
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
Katha Pollitt
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
Carl Van Vechten
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
Ted Stevens
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
Ed Westwick
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Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
James Frey
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I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
Orson Welles
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The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.
Jonathan Carroll
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What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas.
Jason Mraz