Matthew Sweet Quotes

You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time.

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• I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Research
  • Academic
  • Storyteller

• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Early
  • Brown
  • Earned

• When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Words

• I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Goal

• It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Christian
  • Difference

• I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Future
  • Like
  • See

• Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Me
  • Walking

• Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Boy
  • Accomplishments

• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Child
  • Toy
  • Youngest

• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing

• You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Friend
  • Kind
  • Forget

• I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • School
  • Small
  • Law

• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • Time
  • Death
  • Stop

• I knew that my hair was falling out and I had really weird skin. My face looked really weird and I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold - always to the point of uncontrollably shaking. I was more scared that 85 lbs. wasn't good enough. I wanted to be lower.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Weird

• You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Criticism

• If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Power

• What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Books

• You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time.

  

  Matthew Sweet
  • Time
  • Value