Matthew Heineman Quotes
So much of the access that I was able to gain with the Autodefensas was over months, not days.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
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I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
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I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
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The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)
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While most people... were seeking to modify the principles of either relativity or quantum theory, we surprised ourselves (and many other people) by succeeding in putting them together without modifying their principles.
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The wind which passes through the skins of animals will make men leap up:-That is the bagpipes, which cause men to dance.
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People don't even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way.
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Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.
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I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.
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My older brothers, they know how to keep my head straight and be thinking about what I need to do on the court. Now I have that in me, that mentality, that I want to get better and better every game. Thanks to them, they showed me the way.
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I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.
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What was he doing, the great god Pan,Down in the reeds by the river?Spreading ruin and scattering ban,Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,And breaking the golden lilies afloatWith the dragon-fly on the river.
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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The body doesn't recover like it does when you're younger.
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When you love someone so deeply they become your life,it's easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside,blindly I imagined I could keep you under glass,now I understand to hold you I must open my hands, and watch you rise.
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So much of the access that I was able to gain with the Autodefensas was over months, not days.
