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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I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with.
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People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.
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Everything I do will always be compared to 'Love Song' in terms of success or the way it's written or whatever, but it was a really formative moment in my life and in my career.
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Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
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Success doesn't come overnight, especially for women.
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Growing up in Eugene, Oregon, there was everything from The Notorious B.I.G. to Weezer playing in my car.
