Matisyahu (Matthew Paul Miller) Quotes
Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.
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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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I'm not a Republican, but I was one once - when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I'm a Hindu - I was confused.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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Dinah had all the class.
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U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.
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I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.
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I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is - I don't even want to say that it's mine, because it's yours.
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Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.
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I can't tell you the number of stories I've told with a female protagonist don't get bought, or they do get bought and get changed drastically. Or, I will literally write into the script different races, and they get cast all-white. I hope that stops and it opens the door for more voices to be heard in movies.
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This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.
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Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
