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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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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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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Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.
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I would love to be an Avenger or Wonder Woman. Pretty much any woman who can kick ass and take names, I am down! I have also always wanted to be a sultry mermaid or a bad ass fairy.
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This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
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Particularly if you're a good engineer, there's a lot of ways you can make money, but to actually have an impact on the world is rare, and when you find an opportunity for that, it's very special.
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I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.
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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.
