Matthew Simpson Quotes
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
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Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
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Abilities wither under criticism, they blossom under encouragement.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.
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As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
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Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.
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Sanctification is not regeneration.
