Matt Berninger Quotes
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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I don't eat red meat.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
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You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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I like Public School and En Noir.
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I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
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My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.
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There's definitely been times where there's stuff that I have not been comfortable with, and I've had to put my foot down.
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Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.
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If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you.
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When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later.
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Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
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I'm overly sentimental and don't throw things away.
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Sometimes you have to wear what you want.
