Matthew Walker Quotes
You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be lovely if sleep worked like that? Sadly, it doesn't. Sleep is not like the bank, so you can't accumulate a debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.
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Skipp and Spector's 'Books of the Dead' were huge influences on me as a writer.
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I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.
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You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be lovely if sleep worked like that? Sadly, it doesn't. Sleep is not like the bank, so you can't accumulate a debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time.
