Matt Berninger Quotes

Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave know best. Although I wear a lot of jeans, I've been told that Nick Cave doesn't own a pair and wouldn't be caught dead in denim.

Matt Berninger The National

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• Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Day
  • Romantic
  • Holidays

• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Think
  • Like
  • Independent

• The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Rich
  • More
  • Resources

• I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Play
  • See
  • Influence

• I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Heart
  • She
  • Character

• Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Understand
  • Healthy

• All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Exercise
  • Empathy
  • Advocacy

• The professionals must set a good example.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Good
  • Example
  • Good Example

• Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Day

• I did some mistakes; I accept that - I always accept my mistakes. For sure, we are looking forward to improve, to deliver my best as always.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Best
  • Looking Forward

• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Like
  • Meeting
  • Reaction

• No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Accepted
  • Catastrophe
  • Rebellious

• I've played soccer since I was five.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Soccer
  • Played
  • Five

• It can take up to 100 chinchillas to make one coat and Jennifer Lopez has one made of 80 of them, all killed by electrocution or having their necks snapped. … Besides, wearing fur makes you look like an old woman!

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Up

• Let us serve Gujarat by maintaining shanti and sanyam. Let us strengthen the arms of law.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Law

• Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Music
  • Ocean
  • Lake

• We are told in the White Paper that there is danger against which we have to guard ourselves. We do not think you can do it by national defence. We think you can only do it by moving forward to a new world – a world of law, the abolition of national armaments with a world force and a world economic system. I shall be told that that is quite impossible.

  

  Clement Attlee
  • World
  • Law
  • Moving

• After graduating, I began auditioning for films while continuing to model. I did a few fashion shows, ad shoots, and even got a few Bollywood offers, but nothing great.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Great
  • Fashion
  • Model

• Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Teaching

• I get nervous all the time. The only time I'm not nervous is onstage, which is weird.

  

  Pete Davidson
  • Time
  • Weird

• Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Money
  • Society
  • Alone

• You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.

  

  Klaus Kinski

• Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave know best. Although I wear a lot of jeans, I've been told that Nick Cave doesn't own a pair and wouldn't be caught dead in denim.

  

  Matt Berninger The National