Mat Kearney Quotes
I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
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I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.
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I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.
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I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.
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'Twas easy following where invention trod - All eyes can see when light flows out from God. And thus did Jubal to his race reveal Music their larger soul, where woe and weal Filling the resonant chords, the song, the dance, Moved with a wider-winged utterance.
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I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.
