Matt Prokop Quotes
My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade girlfriend. It was the first time we were alone. Her mom was sitting two rows in front of us!
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
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As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.
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It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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Writers are idiots with Underwoods.
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The resources at Harvard - its professors, our fellow students, the libraries, its alumni - created for me the opportunity to pursue my passions in finance.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade girlfriend. It was the first time we were alone. Her mom was sitting two rows in front of us!
