Matthew Simpson Quotes
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
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The name Jack was given by an American tourist.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists.
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Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
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There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.
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Communion was born out of shared frustration in 2006. We felt that although the likes of MySpace and YouTube opened up the playing field for songwriters online, people's discovery of these new artists was only skin deep.
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Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For most of us this will require only a slight change of course, sending us toward the time north. The adjustments we must make are those 'small things', but that does not mean they are easy. Too many forces are confusing our compass. But the pull to the polar star is one we recognize. It is the direction toward home.
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We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
