Matthew Henry Quotes
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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We don't want to abandon any of the market we have now. We just want to gain new market.
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I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it.
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I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
