Matt Berninger Quotes

I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.

Matt Berninger The National

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• The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Experience
  • Air
  • Resistance

• People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Real
  • View
  • Point Of View

• I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • World
  • Happy
  • Performance

• I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Tree
  • Forest
  • Atheist

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Suicide

• It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Better

• When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Fear
  • Face
  • Just

• Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Politics
  • Morality
  • Where

• I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Alone

• Death is just life's next big adventure.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Death
  • Adventure

• I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be.

  

  Lana Wood
  • People
  • Life
  • Feel

• Ye have committed wickedness Against the Creator. A hundred thousand angels Are to me witnesses, Who came to conduct me After my hanging, When hanging cruelly, Myself to deliver me In heaven there was trembling When I had been hung. When I cried out Eli!

  

  Taliesin
  • Heaven

• The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Night
  • Freedom
  • Cold

• In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Focus
  • Brain

• If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives.

  

  Daniel Suarez
  • Life
  • World
  • Technology

• There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Personality

• It's very important to take care of yourself. Everyone's lives are so busy. Take at least an hour a day to recharge and do whatever makes you better. For grown-ups, whether it's a spa, sitting in a park with a book, or coffee, take time for yourself.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Time
  • Important
  • Book

• Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts And damn it feels good to be a gangsta!

  

  Willie D
  • World
  • Gangsta

• I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.

  

  Matt Berninger The National