Jason Moran Quotes

Bjork's album, 'Homogenic,' it's got beats, strings, traditional Icelandic stuff. That's my benchmark for what an album should sound like, right up there with Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' and Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On.'

Jason Moran

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LoveSoundRightUpStringsGoing

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Jocko Willink

PeopleBlameEgoYouLookWay

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

Jessica Valenti

WomenViolenceActingPlaceWhatever

Being very, very honest, I've watched more Bill Clinton speeches than stand-up specials. Steve Jobs commencements. They're just great orators. I love people who boldly share their point of view.

Jerrod Carmichael

LoveGreatPeopleViewPoint Of View

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

John Lyly

HopeHeartPastMindShameWhere

Everybody in my family who had a job worked in the auto industry or something related to it.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

FamilyJobIndustrySomethingWho

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

Robert Bork

LawFashionMoralIntellectualWinds

I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.

Mike deGruy

BeautifulBirdsTreesFishRightUp

I was raised on gospel. I remember hip-hop and rock music were secular, so basically, for my first ten years living in Detroit, I was on gospel. But when I moved to Houston, that's when I got to open up my musical horizons.

Lizzo

MusicRememberDetroitLivingRock

I was a very wanting child.

Loretta Young

ChildWantingVery

If we provide the young with a strong foundation, we can leave behind a legacy substantially greater than most are able to bequeath. As for the women, the old adage that you invest in a woman, you invest in a generation, still rings true today.

Joyce Banda

WomenTodayWomanLegacyGeneration

Shutterstock's ability to cultivate a healthy and expanding marketplace for both customers and contributors remains a key competitive advantage and a crucial component of our sustained growth.

Jon Oringer

GrowthKeyHealthyAbilityCultivate

It's weird that I'm putting my old green and gold jersey, and I'm moving on to the cardinal and white. I'm a Stanford Cardinal.

Devon Cajuste

Moving OnGreenMovingGoldWeird

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