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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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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When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.
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I wanted to show people that I don't just make love songs that are about purely being in love.
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Miss America was always white. All the beautiful brown women in America, beautiful sun tans, beautiful shapes, all types of complexions, but she always was white.And Miss World was always white, and Miss Universe was always white.And the angel fruit cake was the white cake and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake.I said, 'Momma, why is everything white?' I always wondered. And the President lived in the White House.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.
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I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.
