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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I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.
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The term 'Xiaokang' is used today to refer to a society where people can receive education, get paid through work, have access to medical services and old-age support, have a shelter and more than enough food and clothing, and lead a well-off life.
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Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.
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When people are like, 'Why are these white people walking around this black hood?' I'm like, 'Why aren't they?' If it ain't bothering nobody, they can do whatever they want! They're in the hood to make it better.
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It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
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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.
