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 needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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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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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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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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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
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I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.
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If you are passionate about entrepreneurship like I am, you too can instill this passion in your children.
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Make a total commitment to your company, your job, and your career. Uncommitted people have no future.
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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!
