Matt Mead Quotes
We don't want to leave the coal in the ground, and that necessarily is going to involve better technology with regard to clean uses of coal.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.
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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.
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At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.
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Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.
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When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.
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We don't want to leave the coal in the ground, and that necessarily is going to involve better technology with regard to clean uses of coal.
