Mat Kearney Quotes
There are people I love in Nashville and would not want to go a day without talking to, but I want to see the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
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I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
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I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
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One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.
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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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While the angels sing, I'd ask you to marry me, give you the sun for a diamond ring, if I could do those things.
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There are people I love in Nashville and would not want to go a day without talking to, but I want to see the world.
