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 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
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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
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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.

  

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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
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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.

  

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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
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• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  

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• I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.

  

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• In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.

  

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• I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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• I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
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• All my life, I've really enjoyed music: making music, playing it, and recording it. It's such a relief and a joy to do what I do for a living.

  

  John 5 LOSER
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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.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • People
  • Music
  • Athlete