Mat Kearney Quotes
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.
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This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
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You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy.
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The idea that I'm 45 doesn't mean that I have no creativity. I'm like a student: it's the same - it's not a war!
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.
