Mat Kearney Quotes
I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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Having the chance to walk at New York Fashion Week for Yeezy and Milan Fashion Week for Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara in a hijab is so significant. It sends a message to young women everywhere that you can be beautiful for just being you.
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Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.
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I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.
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A lot of my inspiration is what straight-size women wear - why is there a disconnect from what they wear and what we can wear?
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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
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I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.
