Mat Kearney Quotes

New Yorkers are historically tough crowds.

Mat Kearney

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• My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • She
  • Style

• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Environment

• Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Important
  • House
  • Reading

• I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Positive
  • Depression

• I always thought I should be treated like a star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Always
  • Star
  • Thought

• I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.

  

  Washed Out
  • Sound
  • Everything
  • Delay

• Our nation is today a powerful nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Nation

• And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Important
  • Truth
  • American

• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Become
  • Task

• In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

  

  Lara Stone
  • School
  • Fun
  • Funny

• Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Messy

• A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Universe
  • Best
  • Boxing

• In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Like
  • Service
  • Obsessed

• I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Job
  • Science
  • Past

• People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.

  

  Warren Giles
  • People
  • Criticism
  • Adverse

• I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • American
  • Just

• I wanna be drunk when I wake upOn the right side of the wrong bed.And every excuse I made upTell you the truth I hate.What didn't kill me,It never made me stronger at all.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Truth
  • Hate
  • Drunk

• You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • May
  • Law

• Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.

  

  William Pitt
  • Country
  • Real
  • Garden

• All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Knows
  • Games
  • Ifs

• If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Different

• Whatever's most important to you is your god. If it's not the Rock Christ Jesus, then it's sand!

  

  Raymond Berry
  • Important
  • Rocks

• Most professional fighters, male and female, hold day jobs, but the women's game attracts a wide social spectrum: hash slingers, teachers, police officers, landscapers, stuntwomen. Many are wives and mothers. Their husbands or boyfriends work their corners, or hide in arena restrooms, scared to watch their bouts.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Work
  • Women
  • Game

• New Yorkers are historically tough crowds.

  

  Mat Kearney