Jason Mraz Quotes
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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My best friend is my husband.
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For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
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I was born free.
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I was earning a living. I was getting into more acting, then 'Coronation Street' came along, and it was the chance of a lifetime.
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Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
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Around age 18, I decided to start writing my own stuff. I wrote some bad short films and shot them. I tried to make them better and better. I slowly learned how to make movies, and I think I'm still learning.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error.
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It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.
