Mat Kearney Quotes
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
Nastassja Kinski -
I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.
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Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.
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When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult to do, because there are only so many words, notes, melodies, songs. But as soon as I stopped thinking and started feeling, it worked. I didn't realize it till I was done.
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Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
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I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.
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Taking care of yourself is so important.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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I used to be a pretty good hit-and-run man when I played in the minors. I handled the bat well and could hit the ball to the right side of the infield. Nevertheless, I know that you often give the opposition an out on the hit-and-run play.
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My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
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Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
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Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
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We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
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The typographic logic created 'the outsider,' the alienated mass, as the type of integral, that is, intuitive and irrational, man. (p. 241)
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Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.
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The first album was literally the first 12 songs I've ever written.
