Mat Kearney Quotes
Growing up in Eugene, Oregon, there was everything from The Notorious B.I.G. to Weezer playing in my car.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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I love to fly so much.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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Shopping for hijabs has always been fun for me. I was so excited to begin wearing a headscarf. I had always looked up to my mother as she wore hers, and I was eager to emulate her beauty and the wonderful things she represented.
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Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
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Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.
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Growing up in Eugene, Oregon, there was everything from The Notorious B.I.G. to Weezer playing in my car.
