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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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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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 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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The urge to run, the restlessness.The heart of stone I sometimes get.The things I've done for foolish pride.The me that's never satisfied.That face that's in the mirror.When I don't like what I see.I guess that's just the cowboy in me.
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'The Goddesses'? I don't believe the term is good enough, but when you're bound by these terrestrial descriptions, you must use the best choice available.
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For to me, this word Art, in its largest sense, signifies those who take pleasure in their work... Artist-carpenters who adjust with joy dovetails and mortises; artist-masons who handle lovingly their trowels; artist-cab drivers, proud of treating their horses humanely-what an ideal state of society that would be.
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I walk around a lot. People come up to me and say 'Hi,' but not that often. I mean, I get it plenty often, but sometimes I wish they'd come up to me more! I mean, I'm just a regular guy.
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Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
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I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.
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With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
