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.

Mat Kearney

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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.

  

  Camille Paglia
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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.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
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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.

  

  Cara Castronuova
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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.

  

  Kaskade
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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.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • 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.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • World
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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.

  

  Karen Handel
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• Time is the devourer of all things.

  

  Ovid
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• I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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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.

  

  Lady Gregory
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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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
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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.

  

  Candice Millard
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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.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
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• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  

  Rachel True
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• I don't mind playing spoiler.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Mind
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• New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Job
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• Wars, conflict, it's all business. 'One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero'. Numbers sanctify.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Business
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• Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • You
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• Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.

  

  Jose Ferreira
  • Experience
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• I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, and I thought this was such a cowboy deal, and I don't wear a hat. They might not think I'm a cowboy. That might sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but apparently, it meant something to me. I wound up with a cowboy tattoo from my elbow to my wrist.

  

  Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Cowboy

• 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.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • People
  • Music
  • Athlete