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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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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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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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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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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Lesbians love whale watching! They fuckin love it! THEY LOVE IT MORE THAN PUSSY! It's any sea mammal really. Whales, manatees, dolphins. They go crazy for the dolphins. I don't know what it is- I think it's the blowhole.
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Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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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.
