Matt Mullenweg Quotes

Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.

Matt Mullenweg

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Character
  • Genes

• I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Moments

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Again
  • Seen

• I still like my antique clothes.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Like
  • Clothes
  • Still

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Perfect
  • Winter

• I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Why
  • Guy

• You change the world by being yourself.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Change
  • Yourself

• As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Military
  • Problems

• Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Reading
  • Waves
  • Skin

• I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • History

• It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Good
  • You
  • Know

• Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely.

  

  David Farr
  • Writing
  • Lonely

• I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Fear
  • Famous

• The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Society
  • Opportunities

• When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

  

  Boris Becker
  • Life
  • Work

• You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.

  

  James Nicoll
  • May
  • Earth

• Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Good
  • Long
  • Money