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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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'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
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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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You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.
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I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type a question into Google and watch the question auto-fill. In that moment, we know someone else has asked that same question. The gift of realizing you're not alone is incredibly powerful.
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Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.
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Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.
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Never do anything that someone else can and will do, when there is so much of importance to be done which others cannot or will not do.
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God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
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For me now, what I've come to is, we don't know anything.
