Mat Kearney Quotes

I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

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• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Worse
  • Active

• When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Person

• If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Money
  • You
  • Looking

• The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Funny
  • Politics

• The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Good
  • Way
  • Sheep

• I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

  

  Tablo
  • You
  • Know
  • Just

• I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Wonderful

• Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Simple
  • Difficult

• Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Soul

• I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Structure
  • Interview
  • Mass

• Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a six-year-old hug my leg after the show and a 60-year-old shake my hand. It's cool to see people connecting with the music across different generations.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Win
  • Discipline

• I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Life
  • Long
  • School

• I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Play
  • Prince
  • Cowboy

• Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Happiness
  • Attitude
  • Depend

• I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • High
  • New

• I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Practice

• ITEM: The Mike Tyson trial. The hotel in which the jury is sequestered goes ablaze. Two firefighters die saving its occupants. The trial of Mike Tyson made us increasingly aware of men-as-rapists. The firefighters' deaths did not make us increasingly aware of men-as-saviors. We were more aware of one man doing harm than of two men saving...

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Die

• It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't think it's wise to shut down the government.

  

  Matt Bevin
  • Wise

• Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

  

  Anthony Carmona
  • Community

• The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Up
  • Work
  • Children

• I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

  

  Mat Kearney