Matthew Pearl Quotes
My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.
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I take my kids to school. It's what keeps you normal.
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I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.
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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
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My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.
