Matt Passmore Quotes
My parents would never put too much hype into anything. They're very proud of me, but they're Queensland people. They're just glad that I have a job.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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As a musician, to be part of anything that promotes peace is very rewarding.
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You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.
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I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.
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It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.
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My standup is years and years of me working things out on the road. I'm really proud of it! A lot of it is about, well... I don't know why I feel this way, but I feel like every special or show I do is some variation on how I feel like I'm not a girl, not yet a woman.
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My parents would never put too much hype into anything. They're very proud of me, but they're Queensland people. They're just glad that I have a job.
