Matthew Prior Quotes
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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
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Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.
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Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
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Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.
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I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.
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I need the Lord's guidance on what to do... I asked God for wisdom.
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…of course, keep-fit people are no good in bed…
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My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words.
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Quite frankly, I'm a member of the investigative committee, one of the senior members of the panel. I don't take our investigative facts and information from a magazine or some article.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact.
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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
