Matt Besser Quotes
I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out there.
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
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I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.
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The business side of real estate investing is fraught with risk. Unlike purchasing mutual funds or savings bonds, with real estate, you can lose money; this is one of the reasons that seasoned real estate investors caution neophytes never to get too emotional about a property and always be willing to walk away.
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Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.
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Fight scenes are hard, no matter what you do. You're trying to make it look like you're hurting someone without hurting them. It doesn't matter how big and strong the guy is that you're fighting or how small and feeble someone is that you're fighting. You don't want to hurt them. You're working with them.
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I don't want to be someone's entertainment.
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What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.
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I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out there.
