Jonny Diaz Quotes
From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
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I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
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I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.
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Producing never stops. It's 24/7.
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Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
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When I pull my hair back in a ponytail, that's how you know I'm having a hard day.
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We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivise young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.
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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
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I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.
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From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.
