Mat Kearney Quotes
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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I'll never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise, someone who can hold a movie and then be charming and charismatic doing promotion. I haven't got what they've got. But at least I'm now comfortable just being myself.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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I'm not picky, quite honestly.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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Once its considered proper to use government force to solve one person’s problem, force can be justified to solve anyone’s problem.
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The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.
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Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.
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We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.
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I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that went beyond memorizing dates and battles and all of that - basically, looking at the life of individuals throughout history, aided by fascinating primary sources.
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs.
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I grew up with a father who didn't wear a watch, and this has permanently marked my relationship with time.
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When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, 'I 'll lay my life,' said he, 'somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'
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I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.
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I love Michigan.
