Mat Kearney Quotes

I do know great books help shape who I am and how I look at life.

Mat Kearney

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• I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Care

• It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • World
  • Help
  • United States

• As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Done
  • Character
  • Together

• The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Look
  • Down

• There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Song

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• Life is an incurable disease.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Incurable

• I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Since

• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Me

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Great
  • Family
  • Love

• There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Simple

• My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Road
  • Thought

• I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Life
  • Lucky
  • Take

• Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.

  

  Sarah Dunn
  • People
  • Life
  • Mistakes

• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• I first got involved in soccer when I was three years old. And I played until I was sixteen, so for thirteen years, and I love it.

  

  Leah Pipes
  • Soccer

• I've had surprises on the campaign trail that have both been just absolutely inspiring and affirming of the great values of the people of this country, and I've had some experiences that are disappointing and troubling.

  

  Katie McGinty
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• I do know great books help shape who I am and how I look at life.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Life
  • Great
  • Help