Jason Moran Quotes

The great jazz radio stations have a duty to continue evolving their format just as audiences ask the musicians to evolve. How do you do that with a form of music that has 100 years of recorded history? How do you also keep it contemporary so you don't isolate your listeners? These are major questions.

Jason Moran

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It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

Joey Lauren Adams

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Hubble uniquely has been able to look in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a nearby star and figure out what's in that atmosphere.

John M. Grunsfeld

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I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

Robert Redford

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I'm a Red American; I believe in tax cuts. But I'm a Red American with a lot of Blue stripes.

Jeanine Pirro

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At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

Troy Vincent

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Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

Toni Braxton

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Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

Mike Krieger

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Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love.

Douglas Wood

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I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.

Conor Oberst

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I used to go on all these blogs and all these websites which I really don't like to go and read about at all, and I couldn't care less anymore.

Coco Austin

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Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

Antonio Banderas

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I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

Anthony Bourdain

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