Matt Berninger Quotes

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Matt Berninger The National

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Care
  • Study

• In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • End
  • Milk
  • Cow

• People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Coming
  • Miseries

• Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Find
  • Look
  • Mirror

• I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Health
  • Day
  • Yoga

• I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Walk

• When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Campaign
  • Trials
  • Yes

• I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Great
  • Kids

• O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Great
  • Kind
  • Challenge

• All objects project their whole image and likeness, diffused and mingled in the whole of the atmosphere, opposite to themselves. The image of every point of the bodily surface, exists in every part of the atmosphere. All the images of the objects are in every part of the atmosphere.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• That is an apology, not an explanation; and apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Apology

• Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

  

  Bernard Law Montgomery
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Decision

• Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Procrastination

• I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Meditation

• The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Power

• I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Dad
  • Mom

• The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • Faith

• You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private life who never swears, treats women with respect, and speaks highly of duty and honor - and go out every day and dedicate yourself to a cause that makes the world worse.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• When you buy into any version of fear, it can become your experience because your molecules are intelligent and your energy responds to the predominant feeling in your being. The focus of your mind is exactly what gives the orders to create what you experience.

  

  Barbara Marciniak
  • Experience
  • Energy
  • Create

• I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

  

  Matt Berninger The National