Matthew Stover Quotes
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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People love teen movies because everyone can relate.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
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As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.
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In a media age where books are no longer the primary medium for information storage and exchange, language must be reclaimed from the hucksters and the pedants and imaginatively reinforced. To save literature, educators must take command of the pre-rational world of images. The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
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I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.
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So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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'All true stories end in death.'
