Matisyahu (Matthew Paul Miller) Quotes
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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I like Public School and En Noir.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
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I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
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I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
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Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.
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I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
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Self-realization is great.
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Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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For me now, what I've come to is, we don't know anything.
