Matt Rosendale Quotes
When I was 20 years old, if you had a $100 bill and a good idea and a strong work ethic, you could start a company.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.
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There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.
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Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.
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Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
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I consider myself a remarkably unsentimental person. I don't look back on the good old days.
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When I was 20 years old, if you had a $100 bill and a good idea and a strong work ethic, you could start a company.
