Mat Kearney Quotes
I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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If you don't have the time or desire to do whatever is being asked of you, say, 'no.' Even if you want to bake those cookies for your kid's fundraiser or take on a new freelancing gig, sometimes you just have to politely decline until you do have the extra time. The other party may be disappointed, but it's not the end of the world.
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I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.
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When people tell me I am better than I think I am I feel good about myself.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.
