Matthew Moy Quotes
I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
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On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
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I'm a very proud actor.
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I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem.
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On Common Culture, you'll find coffee, clothing, and compilations. So many C's!
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I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.
