Matthew Heineman Quotes
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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In spite of my lack of education, I didn't lack direction.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I believe the climate is changing.
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I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.
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One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
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My job is to generate discussion.
