Matt Sharp Quotes
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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I believe any time that both parties are talking, it's a good thing.
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I don't believe I have a good enough friend to give a three-footer
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I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.
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The problem with having the name Wyeth is that immediately, when people hear the name, they all of a sudden see weathered barns in a field or something.
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Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.
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I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.
