Jason Mraz Quotes
My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul; and we must take care, my friend, that the Sophist does not deceive us when he praises what he sells, like the dealers wholesale or retail who sell the food of the body; for they praise indiscriminately all their goods, without knowing what are really beneficial or hurtful.
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There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.
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I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.
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Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.
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My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.
