Matt Stone Quotes
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never a step to something else. I approached it seriously.
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It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
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Very active in the label, maybe to a fault sometimes.
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I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
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Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clichés, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today he’d most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an “Arms are for Hugging” sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams.
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I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'
