Matisyahu (Matthew Paul Miller) Quotes
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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The 'Dangerous' album has producers like Tiny, who to me is very special. Also, Luny Tunes, Nesty La Mente Maestra, Nelly La Arma Secreta, Haze, and El Ingeniero. I wanted to use everyone who makes music in Puerto Rico and beyond to have variety.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
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As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
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It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
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MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
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We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.
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Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.
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I don't play accurately — any one can play accurately — but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
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Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.
